{"id":16573,"date":"2017-03-08T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=16573"},"modified":"2017-03-08T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:57:14","slug":"experts-opinion-on-zinkes-equine-skills-hes-a-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/03\/experts-opinion-on-zinkes-equine-skills-hes-a-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert&#8217;s opinion on Zinke&#8217;s equine skills: He&#8217;s a dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16574\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-16574 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zinke-horseback.png\" alt=\"Zinkew\" width=\"336\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">U.S. Department of the Interior<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Interior secretary rides to work.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the first thing about riding a horse, but Brenda Wahler evidently does, and she was not impressed with Ryan Zinke&#8217;s horsemanship.<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of Wahler until today, but she is, according to her blog, an attorney and equine consultant who lives in Helena. In <a href=\"https:\/\/wahlerlaw.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/05\/zinke-rides-like-a-dude\/\">a blog post published on Sunday<\/a>, Wahler closely analyzed several photos of Zinke riding a horse to his first day on the job as the new Interior secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing is worth reading\u2014including the conclusion, where she also analyzes a photo of Zinke out fly-fishing\u2014but here&#8217;s the gist of her argument:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being a Montanan doesn\u2019t always mean you are born on horseback, and Zinke is a self-admitted son of a plumber.\u00a0I don\u2019t expect championship equitation from\u00a0a casual outdoorsman, but Zinke looks like the guy\u00a0who hires an outfitter once a year to take him\u00a0into the mountains. More to the point, the guy\u00a0who is packed\u00a0onto the biggest, most\u00a0unflappable\u00a0horse in the string\u00a0is the dude\u00a0who doesn\u2019t\u00a0know which end to face, won\u2019t\u00a0take advice, and needs a horse who is wiser than the passenger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If any readers who also know horses would like to express a contrary point of view, have at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know the first thing about riding a horse, but Brenda Wahler evidently does, and she was not impressed with Ryan Zinke&#8217;s horsemanship. I had never heard of Wahler until today, but she is, according to her blog, an attorney and equine consultant who lives in Helena. In a blog post published on Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5605,628],"class_list":["post-16573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-brenda-wahler","tag-ryan-zinke","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16576,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions\/16576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}