{"id":1185,"date":"2016-01-18T23:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T04:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagoseidlers.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2016-01-18T23:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T04:05:23","slug":"aint-no-party-like-a-pony-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t No Party Like a Pony Party&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we headed up to Palatine for a pony birthday party hosted by our friends, the Christensens, for their 3-year-old son. We&#8217;re not just talking pony decorations here&#8211;these were actual ponies!<\/p>\n<p>The kids got to paint their coats, hang ribbons from their hair and even ride them around the indoor pasture. (Well, Mathias rode them at least and did a great job&#8230;it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoseidlers.com\/?p=602\">a little different from his first time in the saddle<\/a>. Despite her initial enthusiasm, Lillian decided her first pony ride would come down the road.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1186\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoseidlers.com\/?attachment_id=1186\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1186\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flymf.com\/chicagoseidlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2620-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Lori and the kids do a little pony painting.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2620-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2620-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2620-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori and the kids do a little pony painting.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1187\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoseidlers.com\/?attachment_id=1187\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1187\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flymf.com\/chicagoseidlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2621-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Applying some finishing touches. The pony minders asked the kids not to glitter paint the ponies' manes, tails or faces.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2621-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2621-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2621-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Applying some finishing touches. The pony minders asked the kids not to glitter paint the ponies&#8217; manes, tails or faces.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1188\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoseidlers.com\/?attachment_id=1188\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1188\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flymf.com\/chicagoseidlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2622-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Mathias making the rounds. He went back in line at least five times to ride!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2622-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2622-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2622-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mathias making the rounds. He went back in line at least five times to ride!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we headed up to Palatine for a pony birthday party hosted by our friends, the Christensens, for their 3-year-old son. We&#8217;re not just talking pony decorations here&#8211;these were actual ponies! The kids got to paint their coats, hang &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/?p=1185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoseidlers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}