{"id":11264,"date":"2026-01-31T01:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11264"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:10:29","slug":"what-a-tragedy-the-whole-country-is-mourning-the-passing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11264","title":{"rendered":"What a tragedy! The whole country is mourning the passing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By sunrise over a Chilton County pasture, the life of young rodeo standout Ace Patton Ashford was shattered. Fresh out of high school and already a junior champion, he was doing routine ranch work when a spooked horse dragged him, causing catastrophic head injuries that even an emergency airlift to Baylor Scott &amp; White Health could not overcome. In Lott, Texas, grief hangs heavy as friends and family remember a disciplined talent whose easy smile and hard-earned skill made danger look effortless\u2014and whose future was taken far too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By sunrise over a Chilton County pasture, the life of young rodeo standout Ace Patton Ashford was shattered. Fresh out of high school and already a junior champion, he was doing routine ranch work when a spooked horse dragged him, causing catastrophic head injuries that even an emergency airlift to Baylor Scott &amp; White Health &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11264","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\/11264","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=11264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/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=11264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}