{"id":12,"date":"2010-12-28T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-12-28T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T14:58:29","slug":"guide-pony-for-blind-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/guide-pony-for-blind-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide pony for blind student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONA Ramouni was taking notes with a Braille device when her guide pony Cali joined the class discussion with a sudden snort.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What do you think Cali?\u2019 professor Shelley Smithson said with a  laugh, and then steered the conversation back to theories of counselling  and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Cali is just one of a handful of miniature horses in the United  States known to be used as guide animals for the blind and is likely the  first pony to attend college.<\/p>\n<p>The click of her hooves in the halls of Michigan State University is  still turning heads three months after Ms Ramouni and Cali moved to  Lansing for graduate school.<\/p>\n<p>The university has an internationally recognised centre which assists  disabled students and employees integrate into the community and  achieve their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>While there was some initial concern about whether Cali would make a  mess or be a distraction, the tiny brown horse with a shiny black mane  is surprisingly tidy and even gets along with the guide dog of one of Ms  Ramouni\u2019s classmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONA Ramouni was taking notes with a Braille device when her guide pony Cali joined the class discussion with a sudden snort. \u2018What do you think Cali?\u2019 professor Shelley Smithson said with a laugh, and then steered the conversation back to theories of counselling and psychotherapy. Cali is just one of a handful of miniature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}