{"id":4502,"date":"2026-05-29T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:14:00","slug":"the-well-trained-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/the-well-trained-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Well Trained Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Marlow was strolling through the country when he saw a stable with the most beautiful horse he ever laid eyes on. It was seventeen hands high and white, with rippling muscles and a fine, flowing mane. Mr. Marlow struck a deal to buy it from the owner who did, however, pass on one key piece of information.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We are a religious family Mr. Marlow and we&#8217;ve instilled those values in our horse. To get him to gallop you must say &#8216;Thanks God&#8217; to get him to stop you must say &#8216;Our Father Who Art in Heaven.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Settling into the saddle, Marlow said as instructed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Thanks God,&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The animal took off. They rode for miles. Suddenly they were coming up to a cliff. Unfortunately, Marlow couldn&#8217;t remember the phrase to make the animal stop and tried every Biblical passage he could think of until, just a few feet from the edge of the cliff, he shouted,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> &#8220;Our Father Who Art in Heaven!&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The animal stopped instantly. Shaking and perspiring, Marlow reached into his pocket and pulled out a handkerchief.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Thanks God,&#8221;<\/em> he said as he mopped his brow&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Marlow was strolling through the country when he saw a stable with the most beautiful horse he ever laid eyes on. It was seventeen hands high and white, with rippling muscles and a fine, flowing mane. Mr. Marlow struck a deal to buy it from the owner who did, however, pass on one key &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/the-well-trained-horse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Well Trained Horse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}