{"id":1479,"date":"2016-11-28T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyomingextension.org\/agambassadors\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T19:26:10","slug":"a-lot-to-be-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/a-lot-to-be-thankful-for\/","title":{"rendered":"A lot to be thankful for…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was around ten years old when my dad took me on a road trip around the west. This was the first time I\u2019d ever been on a horse and from that day forward, I\u2019ll blame him for wanting to be a cowboy. After that, I started riding working cow horses until that got too expensive and I decided it was much cheaper to throw a rigging bag into the trunk of a car and travel to bull r\"rob\"<\/a>idings. I rode bulls for a few years until I broke my back and injured my spinal cord leaving me paralyzed from the waist down in March of 2012. At this point I was very uncertain what to do with my future. Liz Watson, a physical therapist from Magee Rehab, suggested going back to school and I thought to myself, \u201cnot a bad idea, but I\u2019ve been out of school for 6 years.\u201d I wasn\u2019t sure if I could do it. So, I enrolled at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania just to get my feet wet. By the time I was finished my associates, I knew I would be transferring to a four-year school. I was considering Texas A&M and the University of Wyoming. I was fortunate enough to visit both schools with my brothers and sister. After visiting the University of Wyoming the answer was clear, but I still wanted to see what Texas A&M had to offer. Needless to say, here I am. I left Pennsylvania by myself in the summer of 2015 with a trunk full of clothes. When I got here I didn\u2019t know anyone, but It didn\u2019t take long to make friends across Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Fast-forward to Thanksgiving 2016 and I find myself riding horses with friends and trying to decide whose Thanksgiving dinner to attend. Obstacles can be overcome, and I can\u2019t thank my friends and family enough for the continued support pursuing a career in agriculture. Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n

-Rob Ziegler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was around ten years old when my dad took me on a road trip around the west. This was the first time I\u2019d ever been on a horse and from that day forward, I\u2019ll blame him for wanting to be a cowboy. After that, I started riding working cow horses until that got too … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag-ambassadors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Le20-nR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}