{"id":1205,"date":"2013-03-19T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:34:44","slug":"polo-and-my-current-cowboy-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"POLO AND MY CURRENT COWBOY HERO!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ace High authors over at Wild and Wicked Cowboys kindly offered to host me, so I&#8217;m movin&#8217; the campfire this Saturday, March 23rd!! Hope y&#8217;all will join me over there where I&#8217;m jawin&#8217; about Polo in Wyoming and how it helped me create the hero in my current WIP!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildandwickedcowboys.wordpress.com\/\">Wild and Wicked Cowboys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For your enjoyment and as a thank you for stoppin&#8217; on by, here&#8217;s a couple pictures from last summer&#8217;s Cowboy Polo match between the wranglers of two dude ranches here in the Sheridan area!<\/p>\n<p>Each player was required to drink a can of beer, then play the first chukker.<br \/>\nAfter a brief half-time, another can of beer and another chukker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cowboy-polo-one.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1206\" alt=\"cowboy polo one\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cowboy-polo-one.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cowboy-polo-one.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cowboy-polo-one-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cowboy-polo-one-500x196.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"50%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7-15_230pm_cowboy_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1207\" alt=\"7-15_230pm_cowboy_5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7-15_230pm_cowboy_5.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7-15_230pm_cowboy_5.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7-15_230pm_cowboy_5-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7-15_230pm_cowboy_5-394x300.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The ball was destroyed during the first chukker, so the second period was played with a fooball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Head on over the Wild and Wicked Cowboys to read how the &#8220;sport of kings&#8221; ended up in the &#8220;King of the Cowboy Towns!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>**Both photos were used with the permission of Perk Connell at the Big Horn Polo Club, Sheridan, Wyoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ace High authors over at Wild and Wicked Cowboys kindly offered to host me, so I&#8217;m movin&#8217; the campfire this Saturday, March 23rd!! Hope y&#8217;all will join me over there where I&#8217;m jawin&#8217; about Polo in Wyoming and how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/?p=1205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-west-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}