{"id":2125,"date":"2009-09-26T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2009-09-26T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T23:09:31","slug":"cowboys-afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys afoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2009\/GenghishKhan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The Cowboys have the biggest football stadium in the world, but they don&#8217;t have the biggest horse. It&#8217;s the Mongolians who have bragging rights to the world&#8217;s largest equestrian statue, ridden by none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/asianhistory.about.com\/od\/profilesofasianleaders\/p\/GenghisKhanProf.htm\">Genghis Khan<\/a>. The Khan is enjoying a public relations makeover in Mongolia something like that of quarterback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogstreetjournal.com\/story\/4522\">Michael Vick<\/a> with the Eagles in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The massive 250-ton, steel-clad statue of the 13th-century conqueror stands 131 feet tall (the Statue of Liberty measures 151 feet from the top of\u00a0 the\u00a0 base to the tip of her torch), atop a two-story base, and there are plans to develop a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/world\/asia\/03genghis.html\">theme park <\/a>on site, where Genghis Khan is reputed to have found his legendary golden whip.<\/p>\n<p>The previous title of &#8220;world&#8217;s largest equestrian statue&#8221; belonged to the 72-foot monument of mounted Hussite general <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelpraguecity.com\/fotky\/okoli\/zizka2.html\">Jan Zizkathe<\/a>, in the Czech capital of Prague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboys have the biggest football stadium in the world, but they don&#8217;t have the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}