{"id":7029,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/how-to-train-an-animal\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","slug":"how-to-train-an-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/how-to-train-an-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Train An Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunther Gebel-Williams trains animals for the circus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaster horse trainer Harry Williams taught Gunther that unending patience was the secret of success in training any animal.  Never strike a horse, Williams explained.  Instead constantly repeat instructions, using rewards for accomplishments and mild rebukes for failure.  Gunther also learned the value of consistency \u2013 presenting yourself every day to an animal the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunther Gebel-Williams trains animals for the circus. \u201cMaster horse trainer Harry Williams taught Gunther that unending patience was the secret of success in training any animal. Never strike a horse, Williams explained. Instead constantly repeat instructions, using rewards for accomplishments and mild rebukes for failure. Gunther also learned the value of consistency \u2013 presenting yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,2217,56,515,982,301,1444],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}