{"id":16767,"date":"2021-10-06T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=16767"},"modified":"2021-10-05T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:06:47","slug":"he-kicked-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/he-kicked-the-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"HE KICKED THE HORSE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bryce Angell – The outdoors has always been a large part of my life. My father was an outfitter and guide for 35 years and I was there to shoe and care for the horses and help him do the cooking. We took many great trips into the Yellowstone area. Even now that I\u2019m older, we still ride into the Tetons, Yellowstone and surrounding areas. My poems are mostly of personal experience. I am now retired and enjoying life to the fullest. I plan to do more riding and writing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I grabbed my knife and nippers first, a habit or routine? Which brings me to my story \u2018bout a \u201chippie\u201d name of Gene.<\/p>\n

Gene would talk your ear off, then he\u2019d start in on the other. He weren\u2019t a bit religious but he always called me brother.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d have to say Gene had less brains than a juniper fencepost. I\u2019m not saying he was stupid\u2014maybe a hippie overdosed?<\/p>\n

Before I even had a chance to reach the horse\u2019s leg, Gene\u2019s Harley roared on in and, to the seat, a strapped-on keg.<\/p>\n

Gene claimed the keg was empty and it never left his bike. He called it, \u201cConversation, and it\u2019s what the ladies like.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI saw you out here slapping on a few horseshoes. I\u2019m here to spend some time and give advice that you could use.\u201d<\/p>\n

I told him he could help me even though he had no clue. \u2018Cuz shoein\u2019 ornery horses ain\u2019t no Sunday barbecue.<\/p>\n

So, I reached the sorrel\u2019s right-front foot, pulled it up between my knees. But the sorrel pulled on back. I gave my knees an extra squeeze.<\/p>\n

I hollered whoa, then Gene flipped out, the looney, crazy nut! He stepped up to the sorrel and he kicked him in the gut.<\/p>\n

Gene scared the sorrel half to death, jumped six feet in the air. All I could see was thrashing hooves\u2014not a worse place anywhere!<\/span><\/p>\n

They say a horse won\u2019t step on you; they\u2019d rather go around. I\u2019d like to find who made that up and stomp him in the ground.<\/p>\n

So, the sorrel took off running. Gene offered me a hand. But the words I soundly blessed him surely shook the Motherland.<\/p>\n

Gene hopped up on his chopper. Never saw him past that day. If you see a keg strapped to a Harley, stay the heck away!<\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>\u2013 Bryce Angell<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grabbed my knife and nippers first, a habit or routine? Which brings me to my story \u2018bout a \u201chippie\u201d name of Gene. Gene would talk your ear off, then he\u2019d start in on the other. He weren\u2019t a bit religious but he always called me brother. \u00a0 I\u2019d have to say Gene had less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cowboy-poetry","7":"category-commentary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16769,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions\/16769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}