{"id":110128,"date":"2015-08-20T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-saddle-hits-the-stage\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:54:09","slug":"a-saddle-hits-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-saddle-hits-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"A saddle hits the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:eb8925ca-43d2-40c9-9461-a9a2cf08a12d --><\/p>\n<p>Durangoans Loren and Lisa Skyhorse are known for their intricate work in leather, with pieces in the permanent collection of the Booth Western Art Museum and scores of private collections.<\/p>\n<p>In the Skyhorses\u2019 40-year career, they have made about 950 one-of-a-kind saddles, but the one that may be their most famous is the magnificent red-and-silver saddle, created for Shania Twain\u2019s Farewell Tour. It\u2019s gone viral on social media \u2013 in large part because of an Instagram photo by Miranda Lambert \u2013 and in the press in a photo in People magazine.<\/p>\n<p>If the saddle weren\u2019t dramatic enough, the way Twain uses it in her concerts is a showstopper. She sings her hit \u201cUp!\u201d while riding high over the audience in the saddle while a crane holds her up.<\/p>\n<p>The saddle features 1,500 silver studs and Loren Skyhorse\u2019s iconic braided silver.<\/p>\n<p>Visit www.people.com\/article\/miranda-lambert-girls-night-shania-twain-concert to see the Skyhorses\u2019 saddle \u2013 and Twain \u2013 in action.<\/p>\n<p>Herald Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>signature piece for Twain\u2019s farewell tour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5843],"tags":[13,4502],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-110128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-talk-about-town"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110128"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=110128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}