{"id":37927,"date":"2026-02-12T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37927"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:57:25","slug":"the-riderless-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37927","title":{"rendered":"The Riderless Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37918\">Knowing your neighbor &#8211; Harry Welty<\/a><br \/>\nNext Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37934\">Kicked out of the Republican Precinct Caucus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have had to do little to keep my tribute to Renee Good in good shape because of a long run of short days and cold weather. I have added snow to her face but there would come a time when the melting and the many withered flowers and melted candles would become a distraction unfitting for my memorial. Last night I noticed that my second sculpture&#8217;s hockey stick and helmeted head were gone I decided I would tidy up both sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping the Honda Pilot up for a couple more days and simply removed Renee. The empty Pilot is like a riderless horse that is led in a funeral processions as a symbol for a departed military commander. <\/p>\n<p>I placed one remaining battery powered candle in the seat where Renee sat. With a little less formality I shoveled my hockey player down the hillside. <\/p>\n<p>Until the car frame melts in a day or two this is what passers-by will see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55092820708_5820667cbd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: Knowing your neighbor &#8211; Harry Welty Next Post: Kicked out of the Republican Precinct Caucus I have had to do little to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,93,91,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37937,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927\/revisions\/37937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}