{"id":174,"date":"2007-11-27T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/11\/27\/baylor-equestrian-helps-make-a-cancer-patients-dream-reality\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T14:19:06","slug":"baylor-equestrian-helps-make-a-cancer-patients-dream-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/11\/baylor-equestrian-helps-make-a-cancer-patients-dream-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor equestrian helps make a cancer patient\u2019s dream reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bearspace.baylor.edu\/Group_BaylorProud\/www\/galleries\/darling\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/makeawish-1.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Darling and Fudge\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>7-year-old Taylor Darling has been fighting cancer for nearly two years; thankfully, it is now in remission. As she travels the road back to good health, she&#8217;ll have a new companion: a 6-year-old black quarter pony horse she named \u201cFudge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pony was a gift from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Make-A-Wish Foundation<\/a> and was presented during an intermission at a recent Baylor equestrian meet, when Darling was also made an honorary equestrian team member. Coming in, she knew she had been selected as an &#8220;honorary carrot-feeder&#8221; for the day, but she had no idea that the pony she was feeding was her own.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in these articles from <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-equest\/spec-rel\/111907aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">BaylorBears.com<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2007\/11\/19\/11192007wacmakeawishhorse.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bearspace.baylor.edu\/Group_BaylorProud\/www\/galleries\/darling\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> or on the picture at right for a slideshow of photos from the day.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor equestrian and Make-A-Wish, for helping a girl&#8217;s dream come true; and an extra-big sic \u2019em to Taylor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7-year-old Taylor Darling has been fighting cancer for nearly two years; thankfully, it is now in remission. As she travels the road back to good health, she&#8217;ll have a new companion: a 6-year-old black quarter pony horse she named \u201cFudge.\u201d The pony was a gift from the Make-A-Wish Foundation and was presented during an intermission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-extraordinary-stories","category-photo-galleries","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}