{"id":7512,"date":"2025-01-11T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2025-01-11T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T13:59:04","slug":"guatemalan-criollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/guatemalan-criollo","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan Criollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Criollo is a favorite throughout the South and Central American countries and almost all of them have their own strain of the breed. The Guatemalan Criollo comes from a country of extreme inhospitable climates that aren&#8217;t always conducive to horses.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>The word Criollo was originally used for animals of purebred Spanish ancestry who were born in the Americas. After so long, the term now indicates they are from the Americas but still carry Spanish bloodlines. Almost all of the breeds native to South and Central America come from the <a href=\"\/breeds\/barb\">Barb<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"\/breeds\/andalusian-horse\">Andalusian<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 13.3 &#8211; 15.1 hands<br \/>\nAn amazingly resilient and robust animal<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is short with broad forehead and sometimes convex profile<br \/>\nEyes are alert<br \/>\nEars are small and pointed<br \/>\nNeck is muscular and slightly crested<br \/>\nBack is large and strong<br \/>\nLegs are short, solid and strong<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>All <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Strong character<br \/>\nIndependent and tenacious<br \/>\nWilling and sensible <\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Livestock horse<br \/>\nRiding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Criollo is a favorite throughout the South and Central American countries and almost all of them have their own strain of the breed. The Guatemalan Criollo comes from a country of extreme inhospitable climates that aren&#8217;t always conducive to horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-7512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guatemala","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512","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=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}