{"id":67485,"date":"2017-06-08T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rodeo-announcer-explains-it-all\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:25:31","slug":"rodeo-announcer-explains-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rodeo-announcer-explains-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodeo announcer explains it all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b6a1a43d-8c0d-4461-a70f-7d3e25d4b7aa&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"744\" height=\"1117\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Announcer Jody Carper has been introducing riders and doing play-by-play reports for the Ute Mountain Rodeo since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe great people keep bringing me back,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is very professionally run, and they bring in great talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His job is to explain each individual event, talking about the contestants, livestock and sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot on my plate, and it takes a lot of preparation. I\u2019m the stat man and the color man, so I do my homework,\u201d Carper says. \u201cI love crowd participation and get them involved, asking questions and getting some back and forth going. The bull riding and barrel racing are probably the crowd favorites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also banters with the barrel man and participates in comedy routines to entertain the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarrison is great to work with. He is one of the best in the business,\u201d Carper said.<\/p>\n<p>When Carper gets the call to work the Ute Mountain Roundup Rodeo, he knows he going to mix business with pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of my favorites, and I always come a week early to enjoy the great scenery, and play some golf,\u201d he says. \u201cRodeo announcing is the entertainment business, and I feel blessed to have this job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>clowns part of show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,937],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-rodeo"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67485","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=67485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67485"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}