{"id":551,"date":"2008-05-16T00:44:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T05:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2008-05-17T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T00:05:19","slug":"at-liberty-with-lorenzo-the-flying-frenchman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"At liberty with Lorenzo the Flying Frenchman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x19nep_lorenzo-the-flying-french-man_events\" title=\"Lorenzo the Flying Frenchman\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/lorenzo_alpes.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/><\/a>Inspired by James Bond movies, cossack riders, and the dressage performances of Hasta Luego, Laurent Serre, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x19nep_lorenzo-the-flying-french-man_events\">Lorenzo &#8220;The Flying Frenchman<\/a>,&#8221; has taken liberty riding to a new level. You really do have to see it to appreciate the beauty, skill and teamwork. The scenes on the beach are breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo, 28,  grew up in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer in southern France. Enthralled by a local performance of acrobats on horseback, when he was seven, he tried some of their techniques on his mother&#8217;s pony. By the time he was 11, he had purchased his first Camargue horse and was performing himself.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Lorenzo perfects his routines on the beach and in the water near Les Saintes Maries de la Mer and performs at many prestigious venues around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by James Bond movies, cossack riders, and the dressage performances of Hasta Luego, Laurent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}