{"id":65,"date":"2011-06-20T20:17:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-06-20T20:17:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:17:46","slug":"buck-brannaman-knows-the-way-of-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/buck-brannaman-knows-the-way-of-the-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck Brannaman Knows the Way of the Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/buck_brannaman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/buck_brannaman.jpg\" alt=\"Buck Brannaman, Horse Trainer\" title=\"Buck Brannaman, Horse Trainer\" width=\"215\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/buck_brannaman.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/buck_brannaman-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>People and horses alike listen when Buck Brannaman has something to say.  This former trick rope performer turned cowboy philosopher was the inspiration behind the film and novel, &#8220;The Horse Whisperer&#8221; and is now the star of first-time-director Cindy Meehl&#8217;s documentary, &#8220;Buck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story of Buck is one of a man who transcends the abuse of his childhood and learns grace and patience through his love of horses.  His role-models, Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance, were modern pioneers in the philosophy and methods of natural horsemanship, a discipline that Mr. Brennaman soon adopted and began spreading the word about.<\/p>\n<p>For almost three decades Mr. Brennaman has run clinics all over the country teaching working cowboys and other horse devotees that riding a horse like a dance \u2013 it is a combination of wooing, leading and mutual respect.  <em>&#8220;When you get to the point where a horse accepts you, trusts you, it can change you as a person and change the way you relate to other people, not just horses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The film, &#8220;Buck&#8221; was a made to inspire people to make changes to the way they deal with both horses and life&#8217;s challenges.  It teaches people to communicate using leadership and sensitivity rather than fear and intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People and horses alike listen when Buck Brannaman has something to say. This former trick rope performer turned cowboy philosopher was the inspiration behind the film and novel, &#8220;The Horse Whisperer&#8221; and is now the star of first-time-director Cindy Meehl&#8217;s documentary, &#8220;Buck.&#8221; The story of Buck is one of a man who transcends the abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,25,7],"tags":[84,63,81,83],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-movies","category-horse-quotes","category-horse-training","tag-horse-movies","tag-horse-trainers","tag-horse-training","tag-horse-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}