{"id":10698,"date":"2026-01-14T02:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:29:57","slug":"what-a-tragedy-the-whole-country-is-mourning-the-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"What a tragedy! The whole country is mourning the passing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eighteen-year-old rodeo roper Ace Patton Ashford died in a tragic freak accident on August 12 while helping a sick cow, when he was dragged across a field by his horse and suffered fatal injuries. His death has deeply shaken the tight-knit rodeo community, where he was admired for his talent, dedication, and the promise of a bright future, cut short just weeks before he was set to achieve one of his lifelong dreams in the sport.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen-year-old rodeo roper Ace Patton Ashford died in a tragic freak accident on August 12 while helping a sick cow, when he was dragged across a field by his horse and suffered fatal injuries. His death has deeply shaken the tight-knit rodeo community, where he was admired for his talent, dedication, and the promise of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}