{"id":6879,"date":"2016-02-26T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T02:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/rodeo-season\/"},"modified":"2016-02-26T19:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T02:50:40","slug":"rodeo-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/rodeo-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodeo Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/rodeo.jpg' title='Bowman Rodeo Grounds'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/rodeo.jpg' alt='Bowman Rodeo Grounds' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our way up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/reynosawatch.org\/minstrel\/2016\/02\/26\/range-report-4\/\">Wickenburg Sportsmen&#8217;s Club shooting range<\/a> today, we passed the Everett Bowman Rodeo Grounds where a bunch of cowboys and cowgirls were warming up for one of the upcoming rodeo events here in town. During the winter months (and to a lesser extent the rest of the year), we see a lot of horse trailers on the roads and in the downtown and outlying arena parking areas. <\/p>\n<p>We like the fact that the rodeo brings a lot of welcome commerce to our little town, even if it means more traffic on the road and more competition while grocery shopping. Both of us, although we aren&#8217;t rodeo participant types, enjoy seeing good horses and riders. We have been known to go to rodeos in the past and may do so again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our way up to the Wickenburg Sportsmen&#8217;s Club shooting range today, we passed the Everett Bowman Rodeo Grounds where a bunch of cowboys and cowgirls&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-current-events","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}