{"id":9919,"date":"2019-03-01T18:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2019-03-01T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:52:57","slug":"karen-waters-crowned-as-2019-rodeo-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9919","title":{"rendered":"Karen Waters Crowned as 2019 Rodeo Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9895\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9895\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9895\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rodeo-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rodeo-008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rodeo-008-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rodeo-008-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rodeo-008-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Fresnos Rodeo 2019 queen and with her grandmother, Janice. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Karen Kutscher Waters was crowned as Los Fresnos Rodeo Queen during a media night at the newest building of Los Fresnos rodeo grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The junior student at Los Fresnos High School who enjoys water polo, received the crown and other gifts on Thursday, Feb. 14, in front of hundreds of people who were enjoying a BBQ meal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for this honor,\u201d she said. \u201cI hope to represent Los Fresnos and the rodeo as best as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters\u2019 father Bruce and grandmother Janice were glad to see her taking the center stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very proud of her,\u201d Janice Waters said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is my angel,\u201d Bruce Waters said. \u201cShe was the Cameron County Livestock Show Queen last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being a queen twice is a tradition here.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because to be rodeo queen, one has to be a livestock show queen first.<\/p>\n<p>Waters will wear the crown until the next rodeo in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Karen Kutscher Waters was crowned as Los Fresnos Rodeo Queen during a media night at the newest building of Los Fresnos rodeo grounds. The junior student at Los Fresnos High School who enjoys water polo, received the crown and other gifts on Thursday, Feb. 14, in front of hundreds of people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9920,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions\/9920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}