{"id":22561,"date":"2025-07-09T00:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=22561"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:05:25","slug":"got-your-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/got-your-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Your Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20768\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20768\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bryce-Angell-PROOF-38-copy-253x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bryce-Angell-PROOF-38-copy-253x300.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bryce-Angell-PROOF-38-copy-150x178.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bryce-Angell-PROOF-38-copy-300x356.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bryce-Angell-PROOF-38-copy-354x420.jpeg 354w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bryce-Angell-PROOF-38-copy.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryce Angell &#8211; 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<p>We saddled up the horses, they were stomping, hot to go. One goofy cowboy hollered, \u201cLet\u2019s get this road on the show.\u201d<br \/>\nI scanned the trail ahead of me and watched the cowboys ride. The measure of the bond we share is strong as grizzled hide.<br \/>\nWe come from different backgrounds. Some have riches, others pocket change. But common comes together when we\u2019re riding on the range.<br \/>\nWith innocent charisma, wearing hats and boots with pride, their number one priority, stick by your good friend\u2019s side.<br \/>\nAnd when this world of misforgiving squeezes you off track. It\u2019s soothing \u2018cuz you know these cowboy friends have got your back.<br \/>\nSome say a cowboy\u2019s word stands strong as any social pact. Don\u2019t know if it is written, or a plain unspoken fact.<br \/>\nI trust these men with family. From my youngest to the old. And thank the Lord I\u2019ve got true friends whose hearts are made of gold.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll ride all day then back to camp for stew and homemade bread. And maybe have a nice warm fire before we go to bed.<br \/>\nWhile sitting \u2018round the warm campfire we\u2019ll listen to the tales of when we were much younger, of the heartbreaks, and the fails.<br \/>\nThe younger ones will play guitar with harmonica chimed in. And we\u2019ll feel the bond grow tighter. Every face will wear a grin.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll check the saddle horses before calling it a night. One cowboy hollers, \u201cGood night all!\u201d Then douses out the light.<br \/>\nI take my hat off to the cowboy codger and the new. They share a bond that no one else can tether to come true.<br \/>\nAnd when we\u2019re out there sleeping on a starless night so black. We can dream a little deeper \u2018cuz the cowboys got our back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Bryce Angell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saddled up the horses, they were stomping, hot to go. One goofy cowboy hollered, \u201cLet\u2019s get this road on the show.\u201d I scanned the trail ahead of me and watched the cowboys ride. The measure of the bond we share is strong as grizzled hide. We come from different backgrounds. Some have riches, others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-22561","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\/22561","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=22561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22562,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions\/22562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}