{"id":681,"date":"2013-02-06T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:02:49","slug":"this-is-what-were-talking-about-in-the-farrier-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/this-is-what-were-talking-about-in-the-farrier-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What We&#8217;re Talking About in the Farrier Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just received the comment below from Jesse Silverman on an earlier\u00a0post regarding our project to bring more educational material to the industry and Mike Wildenstein&#8217;s involvement in that effort.\u00a0I think it sums up how a lot of people see Mike&#8217;s overall contributions to the industry and to many of the individuals within.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_682\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blogdsc_0290.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-682\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-682\" title=\"MWildenstein - farrier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blogdsc_0290.jpg\" alt=\"Farrier at Work\" width=\"499\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blogdsc_0290.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blogdsc_0290-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Wildenstein modifying a Kerckhaert shoe during recent filming of educational footage for the farrier industry.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Hey, I wanna start by saying\u00a0I was overwhelmed today to hear that Mike was now a member of your team. I&#8217;m outta the loop with clinics and industry evolutions, (appreciative and blessed to be busy in the dead of winter). My local supplier met him at the Summit, and after seeing her on a freezing snowy morning when most of us would or should go home,\u00a0I felt amazingly inspired and pushed through the day. I went through Mike&#8217;s program in \u201994 (Cornell), and haven\u2019t seen\u00a0him and have hardly spoken to him since. Please forward my email address to him! Amazingly, I speak about him often everyday with my apprentices, using knowledge forever burned in my brain from class discussions. Every shoe\u00a0I use is a Kerckhaert, mainly SX-8\u2032s, DF\u2019s, and the Century aluminums are great. I look forward to Mikes\u2019 innovative input on future designs. I know the basic training videos are neccessary, but let&#8217;s be real; watching Mike forge is like watching an orchestra conductor lead a symphony. If\u00a0you are\u00a0taking requests, I\u2019d like to see some everyday modifications that enhance already incredible \u201ckeg\u201d shoes. To sum up this very long post, that I hope isn\u2019t too long, very few men have made\u00a0the impact on my life Mike has. I am genuinely grateful and honored to have spent those 4 months at the beginning of my now almost 20 year career with him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jesse Silverman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just received the comment below from Jesse Silverman on an earlier\u00a0post regarding our project to bring more educational material to the industry and Mike Wildenstein&#8217;s involvement in that effort.\u00a0I think it sums up how a lot of people see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/this-is-what-were-talking-about-in-the-farrier-trade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,8],"tags":[28,39,37,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}