{"id":92761,"date":"2017-11-28T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:59:11","slug":"queen-victoria-carriage-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/queen-victoria-carriage-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Victoria&#39;s Carriage Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sX8H_P5MYhQ\/UXjAqpg5lhI\/AAAAAAAAEQg\/dyG68O8A2bI\/s1600\/MAA0901121T.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"220\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/maa0901121t.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-92762\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">In the 1890\u2019s Queen <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Victoria<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> paid a visit to <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Bristol<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. Driving up <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Park Street<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, one of her carriage horses cast a shoe, which cab cause irreparable damage to the horse\u2019s foot. The situation was saved by Herbert William Smith, a young farrier, perhaps still an apprentice, who, travelling between jobs, was watching the scene. He had the tools of his trade with him and volunteered to shoe the Queen\u2019s carriage horse. This he quickly did and was rewarded with half-a-crown, a tidy sum in those days. Mr. Smith, who was born in 1878, cherished the coin for the rest of his long life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1890\u2019s Queen Victoria paid a visit to Bristol. Driving up Park Street, one of her carriage horses cast a shoe, which cab cause irreparable damage to the horse\u2019s foot. The situation was saved by Herbert William Smith, a young farrier, perhaps still an apprentice, who, travelling between jobs, was watching the scene. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}