{"id":1383,"date":"2025-02-06T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:09:16","slug":"holy-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/holy-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Horse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an especial magic to seeing animals in urban environments, like a bonus prize, an expected and even undeserved doubling up on beauty.  I usually prefer nature to cities (though <a href=\"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/tag\/hong-kong\/\">Hong Kong<\/a> is pretty nice), but I recognize what cities have to offer.  I like good restaurants and air conditioning and gourmet espresso and book stores and even <a href=\"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/graffiti-in-sofia-bulgaria\/\">street art<\/a>.  I also know that city amenities are generally unavailable in rural or wilderness areas.  And vice versa.  That&#8217;s why, I think, it&#8217;s such a treat to see animals on city streets.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/surreal-israel-wild-boar-haifa\/\">Wild Boars in Haifa (Surreal Israel)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/planet-of-the-monkeys-in-hong-kong\/\">Planet of the Monkeys (Hong Kong)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an especial magic to seeing animals in urban environments, like a bonus prize, an expected and even undeserved doubling up on beauty. I usually prefer nature to cities (though Hong Kong is pretty nice), but I recognize what cities have to offer. I like good restaurants and air conditioning and gourmet espresso and book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[13,183,36,102,63,184,153],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postcards","tag-cultures","tag-jerusalem","tag-travel","tag-travel-photography","tag-travel-postcard","tag-184","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}