{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Gherkin \u2611\ufe0f (thelastgherkin)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-12 09:16:53 UTC","author_name":"Gherkin \u2611\ufe0f (thelastgherkin)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/thelastgherkin","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1839996","html":"So I've been thinking about this whole "Applejack and Big Macintosh as Apple Bloom's parents" thing.  When Applejack is a filly in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, her parents are still nowhere to be seen, but neither is Apple Bloom.  So her parents are maybe dead before Apple Bloom was born?"}