{"id":17932,"date":"2018-10-10T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17932"},"modified":"2018-10-10T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:23:37","slug":"the-evolution-of-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17932","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>When Julius Caesar rode into battle during the height of the Roman conquests, it&#8217;s likely his saddle looked more like a spatchcock chicken that its modern-day equivalent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">With four horns and no stirrups, its only similarity with the modern saddle was that it was made of leather.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the 2000 years since, structural and stylistic changes to the saddle have seen it evolve to offer support, stability and comfort to both horse and rider. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)When Julius Caesar rode into battle during the height of the Roman conquests, it&#8217;s likely his saddle looked more like a spatchcock chicken that its modern-day equivalent.With four horns and no stirrups, its only similarity with the modern saddle was that it was made of leather.In the 2000 years since, structural and stylistic changes to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}