{"id":793,"date":"2010-08-09T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=793"},"modified":"2024-12-31T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:14:29","slug":"lijiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/lijiang","title":{"rendered":"Lijiang Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Lijiang or Pony is a relatively new breed that is bred specifically in the Lijiang District of China. This area is at high altitude and the climate varies widely and native animals were not large enough to suit agricultural purposes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>In 1944 a mix of <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/yili\">Yili<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/hequ\">Hequ<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/kabarda\">Kabarda<\/a> and smaller <a href=\"\/breeds\/ardennes\">Ardennes<\/a> were crossed with local animals. The result of these intense breeding programs is a horse ideal for the local needs of the area. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 11 &#8211; 11.2 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Strong and calm<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k2gKMQMZGO4?si=gOjQTIRTKGDPpt0H\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Lijiang or Pony is a relatively new breed that is bred specifically in the Lijiang District of China. This area is at high altitude and the climate varies widely and native animals were not large enough to suit agricultural purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5,118,11,15],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-bay","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}