{"id":698,"date":"2010-08-09T04:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:12:25","slug":"irish-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/irish-hobby","title":{"rendered":"Irish Hobby Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Irish Hobby Horse is an extinct breed that came from the British Isles sometime before the 13th century. These bloodlines were the foundation for a number of modern Irish breeds, including the <a href=\"\/breeds\/connemara-pony\">Connemara Pony<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/irish-draft\">Irish Draught<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>It is believed that mares of Irish Hobby breeding may have come from animals native to the British Isles which were the foundation for the <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">English Thoroughbred<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Known for their great speed and stamina these animals were used as war mounts throughout the Middle Ages and their name is where the term &#8216;Hobby Horse&#8217; comes from. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Irish Hobby Horse is an extinct breed that came from the British Isles sometime before the 13th century. These bloodlines were the foundation for a number of modern Irish breeds, including the Connemara Pony and Irish Draught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ireland","tag-extinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7717,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/7717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}