{"id":178,"date":"2011-12-20T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2022-02-14T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T20:41:19","slug":"paints-apha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/?page_id=178","title":{"rendered":"NACMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What the heck is NACMO?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s a most awesome equine sport in which you and your horse alone, or you with a group of friends and their horses, go out on trail with a map, a compass, a pen and find hidden objectives.\u00a0 While it is a timed sport <em>(team\/individual with the best time wins)<\/em> it is also a great way to spend time with your horse, your friends and enjoy a some fellowship, camaraderie and friendly competition.\u00a0 Not to mention making you think and use a compass while mounted!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacmo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nacmo.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2014, I was introduced to this sport and was instantly hooked.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way to give my endurance horses some conditioning without the constant speed, and it teaches my endurance horses patience on trail (chuckle) which they mostly do not possess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With that said, in 2017 our regional director of 11 years made the decision to retire from that position and no-one in our region was really interested in taking up the reins.\u00a0 In order not to lose my new found fun sport, I volunteered to take over in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My first year was (mostly) a success!\u00a0 I made mistakes, I caused some older members to become frustrated as I changed many things we were doing differently from the rest of the country, and I found a passion in promoting the sport to anyone who would listen.<\/p>\n<p>Find us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/477448832312521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/477448832312521\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Ride managers<\/strong><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/?page_id=4271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here regarding 2020 changes to setting up a ride<\/a>.\u00a0 This is how to setup a course, as well as some tips and tricks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the heck is NACMO?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s a most awesome equine sport in which you and your horse alone, or you with a group of friends and their horses, go out on trail with a map, a compass, a pen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/?page_id=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newpromisefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}