{"id":24343,"date":"2017-06-11T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24343"},"modified":"2017-06-11T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T03:19:14","slug":"california-cowboys-cowgirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-cowboys-cowgirls\/","title":{"rendered":"California Cowboys and Cowgirls Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cowha.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California cowboys and cowgirls have been honored with nominations and awards by the national organizations that select the finest in the industry. Pictured left to right are recent recipients: John W. Jones, Jr. who was born in Santa Maria and was recently nominated for Steer Wrestling by National Cowboy &amp; Western Heritage Museum;\u00a0Pat North Ommert, who was honored by the Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame for her illustrious career touring the world with Wild West shows. She acted as a stunt double in Hollywood movies; Ed LeTourneau, who was born in San Francisco and nominated for Director&#8217;s Choice in Bullriding by\u00a0 by National Cowboy &amp; Western Heritage Museum. Now retired after 53 years as a veterinarian, LeTourneau is a member of the NSPRA Hall of Fame; the Oakdale, California, High School Athletic Hall of Fame; and the U.C. Davis Athletic Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/norco-cowboy-day.html\">Day of the Cowboy<\/a> is Celebrated July 22, 2017 in Norco, also known as Horse Town USA. \u00a0But the hard working cowboys and cowgirls throughout the state carry a proud tradition every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California cowboys and cowgirls have been honored with nominations and awards by the national organizations that select the finest in the industry. Pictured left to right are recent recipients: John W. Jones, Jr. who was born in Santa Maria and was recently nominated for Steer Wrestling by National Cowboy &amp; Western Heritage Museum;\u00a0Pat North Ommert, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}