{"id":1387,"date":"2023-11-11T22:15:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-black-cowboys-of-the-mississippi-delta-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:15:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:15:52","slug":"the-black-cowboys-of-the-mississippi-delta-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-black-cowboys-of-the-mississippi-delta-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black cowboys of the Mississippi Delta &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-tTEVMFjL8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>It\u2019s estimated that just after the Civil War, one in four cowboys were African American. In his series \u2018Delta Hill Riders\u2019, photographer Rory Doyle takes us inside the often overlooked black cowboy culture within the Mississippi Delta, challenging one of America&#8217;s greatest myths surrounding the Wild West. <\/p>\n<p>Video by Sophia Ahmadi<br \/>\nPromo photo by Rory Doyle<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-tTEVMFjL8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s estimated that just after the Civil War, one in four cowboys were African American. In his series \u2018Delta Hill Riders\u2019, photographer Rory Doyle takes us inside the often overlooked black cowboy culture within the Mississippi Delta, challenging one of America&#8217;s greatest myths surrounding the Wild West. Video by Sophia Ahmadi Promo photo by Rory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}