{"id":103070,"date":"2017-10-21T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T00:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/not-just-horsing-around\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T18:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T00:35:57","slug":"not-just-horsing-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/not-just-horsing-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just \u2018horsing around\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:438b0abf-9391-48e6-9382-629900ceb53f --><\/p>\n<p>The<\/p>\n<p>The Center needs volunteers for therapeutic riding sessions, helping out as side walkers and leaders for children and adults with special needs.<\/p>\n<p>The center was founded in 1999 and is a nonprofit charity.<\/p>\n<p>The charity seeks to help people by using experiential learning through equine assisted therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do assisted riding,\u201d Lynne Howarth, executive director, said. \u201cWe do experiential learning working with school districts, with the youth at risk in social and emotional learning and also psychotherapy, so lots of things to help people, with horses as our helpers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone who attended the workshop was new to equine assisted psychotherapy, but not to horses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we benefit from them (the new volunteers),\u201d Howarth said. \u201cThey seem like great people from all different walks of life and they will learn as they go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the first workshop for this group of volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do continual trainings over time,\u201d Howarth said. \u201cThis is kind of the introduction to what we do and we keep training beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicine Horse Center holds volunteer workshop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,1300,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-horseback-riding","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103070"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}