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Rodeo community members are mourning the death of 18-year-old roper Ace Patton Ashford, who died on August 12 after a tragic accident involving his horse while helping care for a sick cow. Ashford was reportedly dragged across an open field and succumbed to his injuries. His death came just weeks before he was expected to achieve a lifelong goal, leaving family, friends, and fellow rodeo athletes heartbroken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rodeo community members are mourning the death of 18-year-old roper Ace Patton Ashford, who died on August 12 after a tragic accident involving his horse […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18365,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions\/18365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}