{"id":120068,"date":"2014-05-22T22:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jerry-mccaw-honored-as-cattleman-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2014-05-22T22:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T04:37:05","slug":"jerry-mccaw-honored-as-cattleman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jerry-mccaw-honored-as-cattleman-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry McCaw honored as Cattleman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=67c1d340-3786-4777-b9d8-922a3438553f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=67c1d340-3786-4777-b9d8-922a3438553f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=67c1d340-3786-4777-b9d8-922a3438553f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=67c1d340-3786-4777-b9d8-922a3438553f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1453\" alt=\"Jerry McCaw celebrates being named Cattleman of the Year with his wife, Lora, at the La Plata-Archuleta Cattlemen's Association's Banquet at the Sky Ute Casino and Resort Event Center.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Jerry McCaw celebrates being named Cattleman of the Year with his wife, Lora, at the La Plata-Archuleta Cattlemen's Association's Banquet at the Sky Ute Casino and Resort Event Center.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Carol Lewin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McCaw\u2019s family had written a wonderful piece about him and his life as a hardworking rancher. Three generations were there in force to cheer on the clan\u2019s patriarch.<\/p>\n<p>The cattlemen also took time to acknowledge two of their own who have become players on the national stage. Patti Buck is the president of the American National Cattlewomen, and Brice Lee is the president of the National Public Lands Council.<\/p>\n<p>Buck said she got frustrated that almost all country music was about cowboys and cattlemen, but the cattlewomen are out there working hard, too. So she wrote some lyrics and Andy Janowsky wrote the music then sang lead on the recording. The song premiered at the banquet, and a lot of people went home with CDs or DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>The banquet takes a large group of people to pull this off every year. This year\u2019s committee included Mae Morley, Ned and Barbara Jefferies, Trish and Larry Corman, Sandy Young, Sharon Nossaman, Debbie Wilhelm, Jake Nossaman, Norma Conley, Mary Green, Melody Semler, Gary and Peggy Beebe, Wayne and Patti Buck, Gary Evert, Kyle Beebe, Tom Compton, Shirley Engler and Emma Shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCaw celebrates being named Cattleman of the Year with his wife, Lora, at the La Plata-Archuleta Cattlemen&#8217;s Association&#8217;s Banquet at the Sky Ute Casino and Resort Event Center.Courtesy of Carol Lewin McCaw\u2019s family had written a wonderful piece about him and his life as a hardworking rancher. Three generations were there in force to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5758,6399],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-120068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columnists","category-columnists-life-in-the-legislature"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120068","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=120068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120068"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=120068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}