{"id":489,"date":"2008-03-06T10:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=489"},"modified":"2008-03-06T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T15:01:37","slug":"horses-and-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/horses-and-monks\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses and Monks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threepennyjane <a href=\"http:\/\/3pennyjane.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/thanks-latte.html\">writes<\/a> about riding Cappi, what with Doc having been semi-retired. The big surprise for me is learning that Cappi isn&#8217;t his actual entire name, but that it&#8217;s short for Cappuccino (or Cappucino as it&#8217;s spelled in the photo from the barn or the tack room or wherever one hangs saddles).<\/p>\n<p>So then I wonder what the heck a cappuccino is, besides being the familiar coffee drink. Does it have anything to do with horses? First off, it sounds like it&#8217;s the diminutive form of something, which something I guess is <em>capucin<\/em>. Although beats me what a capucin is. I think maybe it&#8217;s like a chevalier or some other European martial character.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, the cheval- part of chevalier refers to the horse itself. So then maybe the capucin- part is a horse reference in and of itself? It could be simply that the horse himself is the color of cappuccino, and maybe this is another instance where I&#8217;ve just gone off the deep end, similar to the Jane Connell\/Threepenny Opera fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that I&#8217;m confused, as usual, in all sorts of ways. A Capuchin is a member of a particular Franciscan order. Monastic, not martial. And the name come from their hooded robes, <em>cappuccio <\/em>in Italian. I&#8217;m still not sure where the coffee comes into play, unless that refers to the color of the robes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threepennyjane writes about riding Cappi, what with Doc having been semi-retired. The big surprise for me is learning that Cappi isn&#8217;t his actual entire name, but that it&#8217;s short for Cappuccino (or Cappucino as it&#8217;s spelled in the photo from the barn or the tack room or wherever one hangs saddles). So then I wonder &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/horses-and-monks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Horses and Monks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}