{"id":504,"date":"2011-10-27T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2018-02-04T15:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:13:23","slug":"the-vancouver-sun-on-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Sun on BUCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Movie review: Buck a heart-warming documentary of a true horse whisperer<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h3>He was one of the Sugar Pops kids, but life for Buck Brannaman wasn&#8217;t all that sweet<\/h3>\n<p>By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News October 27, 2011<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 He was one of the Sugar Pops kids, but life for Buck Brannaman wasn&#8217;t all that sweet. Physically and verbally abused by an alcoholic father from the time he can remember, young Buckshot probably would have ended up a statistic with cirrhosis of the liver, had be not been saved by a higher presence.<\/p>\n<p>Buck&#8217;s salvation came in the form of a great beast: the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Easily one of the most compelling animals to grace the big screen, the horse represents a unique connection between man and nature, because it&#8217;s a true example of poetic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie review: Buck a heart-warming documentary of a true horse whisperer He was one of the Sugar Pops kids, but life for Buck Brannaman wasn&#8217;t all that sweet By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News October 27, 2011 VANCOUVER \u2014 He was one of the Sugar Pops kids, but life for Buck Brannaman wasn&#8217;t all that sweet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}