{"id":453,"date":"2025-12-23T00:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:53:44","slug":"what-a-tragedy-the-whole-country-is-mourning-the-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"What a tragedy! The whole country is mourning the passing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The death of an 18-year-old junior rodeo champion who perished in a bizarre horse-related accident has left a Texas community in mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A representative for the Lott Volunteer Fire Department told CBS affiliate KWTX-TV that at approximately 8 a.m. local time on Monday, August 12, near Chilton, Ace Patton Ashford of Lott, Texas, was tending to a sick calf when a nearby horse became agitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lott VFD official told KWTX, \u201cThe horse [dragged] the man a good distance in an open field after his leg became tangled.Ashford had sustained severe head injuries, but he was still breathing and had a pulse when emergency personnel arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to his obituary, the recent high school graduate passed away after being airlifted to Baylor Scott &amp; White Hospital.&nbsp;<strong>Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of an 18-year-old junior rodeo champion who perished in a bizarre horse-related accident has left a Texas community in mourning. A representative for the Lott Volunteer Fire Department &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}