{"id":21969,"date":"2012-09-09T00:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T07:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=21969"},"modified":"2012-09-09T00:08:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T07:08:01","slug":"the-story-of-lea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/21969","title":{"rendered":"Love is Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lea was born\u00a0the morning of May 22, 2011. Louise, one of my farmhand photographers, started training her little gray filly that very\u00a0day. Aside from an unusual nervousness about her feet, Lea was easy to train. First a bit, then a saddle, and\u00a0eventually she let Louise rest across her back.<\/p>\n

Recently, Louise\u00a0received a call from\u00a0her friends who board Lea to say they’d …<\/p>\n

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taken Lea to their local vet because they noticed something odd about her: she didn’t seem to notice a gate\u00a0and her eyes had become cloudy. The local vet agreed there was a vision problem and recommended that Lea be seen by a specialist at Washington State University Veterinarian School.<\/p>\n

There, Lea was diagnosed with total congenital blindness in both eyes.<\/p>\n

Louise originally intended to train her sweet\u00a0filly in performance reining and\u00a0barrel racing.\u00a0 Following her diagnosis, the doctor recommended that Louise never ride her. But Louise has every intention of riding her and taking her as far as possible toward being a productive horse. Her guiding principle will be that she\u00a0must\u00a0never\u00a0betray Lea or let her down because she will be Lea\u2019s eyes. Lea will need to trust her completely.<\/p>\n

Knowing Louise, I’m confident they’ll have a bright future together.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lea was born\u00a0the morning of May 22, 2011. Louise, one of my farmhand photographers, started training her little gray filly that very\u00a0day. Aside from an unusual nervousness about her feet, Lea was easy to train. First a bit, then a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/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":[10],"tags":[194,385,430,509,524],"class_list":["post-21969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","tag-congenital-blindness","tag-gratitude-2","tag-horses","tag-lea","tag-louise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}