{"id":477,"date":"2013-05-31T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/?p=477"},"modified":"2013-05-31T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:02:40","slug":"navajo-chicken-pull-painting-by-james-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/navajo-chicken-pull-painting-by-james-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Chicken Pull \u2013 Painting by James King"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am doing this new exciting oil painting titled; Navajo Chicken Pull. It’s an old Navajo pass-time with the winner on horseback pulling the chicken out of the soft ground first while he (she-in this painting) is still on the horse.<\/p>\n

\"Navajo<\/a><\/p>\n

Speed and Horsemanship is the key. I have heard stories of this event and have put this painting together thru the story from my aunt Lucy. Painting is 50% from completion with more people looking on..<\/p>\n

Happy Valentine \u2013 Painting by James King<\/a><\/p>\n

\"James<\/a><\/p>\n

James King with youth navajo name Biee’Di’cloo’ (Woolenshirt) from Bit’ahnii birth for Naaneesht’zh’ clan.Raised on a farm along the San Juan River.<\/p>\n

In 1951 he was born in Shiprock, New Mexico
\nAs a young member of the Dine\u2019 (NavajoTribe) I started experimenting with shoe polish and housepaints.
\nThe outhouse wall was artistic drawing board. Soon it was endless what you can do with house paints.<\/p>\n

James King (Woolenshirt) Website:
\nhttp:\/\/www.jameskingstudio.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am doing this new exciting oil painting titled; Navajo Chicken Pull. It’s an old Navajo pass-time with the winner on horseback pulling the chicken out of the soft ground first while he (she-in this painting) is still on the horse. Speed and Horsemanship is the key. I have heard stories of this event and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[37,63,10,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}