{"id":612,"date":"2012-01-25T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2012-01-25T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:13:18","slug":"buck-%e2%80%93-the-horse-whisper-on-abc-rural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Buck \u2013 the Horse Whisper  on ABC Rural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-616\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"Buck Brannaman\" src=\"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/38940044-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/38940044-1.jpg 319w, http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/38940044-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>Professional animal training &#8211; and in particular, horse training &#8211; underwent a total rebranding several years ago with the release of a book, and follow-up movie, The Horse Whisperer. Horse whispering describes a method of dealing with an animal that is both sensitive and nuanced by a trainer with a strong affinity for the animal.<\/p>\n<p>The novel&#8217;s author Nicholas Evans based that description on the work of Buck Brannaman &#8211; a man he describes as the Zen master of the horse world. Buck is the focus of a movie &#8211; a documentary &#8211; released here in Australian cinemas on February 17th. It was an award winner at last year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival. The movie is about Buck&#8217;s work with horses, his attitudes, and background. <em>Cameron Wilson speaks with Buck Brannaman, horse trainer and subject of the movie &#8216;Buck&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rural\/telegraph\/content\/2012\/s3415410.htm?site=melbourne\">Hear audio interview &gt; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional animal training &#8211; and in particular, horse training &#8211; underwent a total rebranding several years ago with the release of a book, and follow-up movie, The Horse Whisperer. Horse whispering describes a method of dealing with an animal that is both sensitive and nuanced by a trainer with a strong affinity for the animal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}