{"id":25771,"date":"2025-02-22T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=25771"},"modified":"2025-02-22T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T18:27:00","slug":"what-a-tragedy-the-whole-country-is-mourning-the-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=25771","title":{"rendered":"What a tragedy! The whole country is mourning the passing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas community is mourning the loss of 18-year-old junior rodeo champion Ace Patton Ashford of Lott, who died in a tragic horse accident.<\/p>\n<p>On August 12, while caring for a sick calf near Chilton, a nearby horse became agitated, and Ashford\u2019s leg got tangled, dragging him across an open field, according to Lott Volunteer Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered severe head injuries but was still breathing when help arrived. Ashford was airlifted to Baylor Scott &#038; White Hospital, where he later died. A recent high school graduate, his passing has deeply impacted his community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas community is mourning the loss of 18-year-old junior rodeo champion Ace Patton Ashford of Lott, who died in a tragic horse accident. On August 12, while caring for a sick calf near Chilton, a nearby horse became agitated, and Ashford\u2019s leg got tangled, dragging him across an open field, according to Lott Volunteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25772,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25771\/revisions\/25772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}