{"id":1964,"date":"2013-01-17T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2013-01-17T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T04:19:11","slug":"horse-saves-own-life-by-working-hall-signal-can-you-beat-it-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"Horse Saves Own Life By Working Hall Signal, Can You Beat It Anywhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Evidently Had a College Education and Knew Electricity. Ran Sleigh of Steel Into Hall Signal Switch and Train is Flagged.<\/p>\n<p>1. First the Lake Forest horse ran away.<br \/>\n2. It made a bad break by getting onto the Northwestern tracks near the depot.<br \/>\n3. It corrected the &#8220;bull&#8221; by drawing the sleigh attached to it into the Hall signal switch, causing the circuit to be completed and the train to be flagged, saving its own life and the sleigh.<br \/>\n     Can you beat it?<br \/>\n     Breaking the hitching strap in some manner yesterday at Lake Forest, a horse to which a sleigh was attached ran away and getting off the road sped along the Northwestern right of way.<br \/>\n     It finally came to a stop when the sleigh runners, of steel became lodged in a Hall signal switch. In this way the electric circuit was completed and the signal responded, flagging a train that came along a few moments later.<br \/>\n     The brakeman of the train proceeded forward when the engine came to a stop to see what was the matter and there stood the Lake Forest horse, which had evidently received a college education, waiting for the sleigh to be released from the clutches of the switch.<br \/>\n     The noble animal had saved its own life.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently Had a College Education and Knew Electricity. Ran Sleigh of Steel Into Hall Signal Switch and Train is Flagged. 1. First the Lake Forest horse ran away. 2. It made a bad break by getting onto the Northwestern tracks near the depot. 3. It corrected the &#8220;bull&#8221; by drawing the sleigh attached to it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}