{"id":686,"date":"2012-06-17T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-07-14T19:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T19:32:38","slug":"trying-to-be-a-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Trying to be a Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_786\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rodeo_farmboy_John-Mattson_danceonedge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-786\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-786\" title=\"rodeo_farmboy_John Mattson_North Dakota\" src=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rodeo_farmboy_John-Mattson_danceonedge1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rodeo_farmboy_John-Mattson_danceonedge1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rodeo_farmboy_John-Mattson_danceonedge1-397x300.jpg 397w, https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rodeo_farmboy_John-Mattson_danceonedge1.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unidentified rider about to get tossed. Glen Ullin N. D.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In my eagerness to compete, I had managed to neglect one small detail.\u00a0 The W\/J rodeo was a nationally sanctioned professional event, with professional riders and professional horses.\u00a0 Some of the horses were as famous as the riders, and I had drawn a good one.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trying to be a Cowboy\" href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=678\">https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=678<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my eagerness to compete, I had managed to neglect one small detail.\u00a0 The W\/J rodeo was a nationally sanctioned professional event, with professional riders and professional horses.\u00a0 Some of the horses were as famous as the riders, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=686\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115,366,123,15,114,108],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-on-the-edge","tag-first-rodeo-ride","tag-john-mattson","tag-north-dakota-2","tag-rodeo","tag-rodeo-photos","tag-rodeo-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}