{"id":1335,"date":"2011-07-31T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2011-07-31T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T02:48:10","slug":"ill-wear-his-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Wear His Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1336\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This Thursday, when I join my buddies for a four-day horseback ride in New Mexico\u2019s Pecos Wilderness, I will wear his hat.<\/p>\n<p>It seems only fitting. For Roy knew horses the way I know books; he handled them every day. They were both his work and his pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>You see Roy was born in 1904, a time when Chief Quanah Parker still lived in Oklahoma and Texas-Ranger-turned-cattle-driver Charles Goodnight still ran a herd of longhorns in the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>Hanging out with Roy is the closest I\u2019ve come to experiencing the Old West face-to-face, something I also hope happens, at least in small measure, this week.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Roy was more than just a man I once knew; I was related to him, sort of. You can read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestyears.com\/ransom.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, when I join my buddies for a four-day horseback ride in New Mexico\u2019s Pecos Wilderness, I will wear his hat. It seems only fitting. For Roy knew horses the way I know books; he handled them every day. They were both his work and his pleasure. You see Roy was born in 1904, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}