{"id":1587,"date":"2011-08-22T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T01:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2011-08-24T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:08:15","slug":"nathan-and-the-national-anthem-horse-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/nathan-and-the-national-anthem-horse-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan and the National Anthem-HORSE SHOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1588\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1588\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2011\/08\/nathan-and-the-national-anthem-horse-show\/nathan_national-anthem_2011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1588\" title=\"Nathan_National-Anthem_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_National-Anthem_2011-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Granner sings National Anthem at Fox Trotter Horse Show\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_National-Anthem_2011-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_National-Anthem_2011-264x400.jpg 264w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_National-Anthem_2011.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sing it OUT!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A mother&#8217;s dream come true.\u00a0 Nathan, my wondrous son, sang at the Kansas City Regional Fox Trotter Horse Association Annual Horse show.\u00a0 (I\u00a0 knew you would want to know what KCRFTHA stood for!)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1589\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1589\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2011\/08\/nathan-and-the-national-anthem-horse-show\/nathan_longview-horse-park-2011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1589\" title=\"Nathan_Longview Horse Park-2011\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Longview-Horse-Park-2011-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Longview-Horse-Park-2011-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Longview-Horse-Park-2011-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Longview-Horse-Park-2011.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Granner rides Velvet in the historic Longview Horsepark arena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nathan Granner has been all over the world singing.\u00a0 He&#8217;s one of The American Tenors.\u00a0 He is famous and loved by everyone who knows him and has heard him give a concert.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been featured on PBS. The American Tenor Concert filmed at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood was shown all over the USA and Nathan was usually on the air helping stations raise money.<\/p>\n<p>That and more!\u00a0 He is an Operatic Tenor.\u00a0 He&#8217;s humble and much fun.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an animal lover and makes a loyal friend. He&#8217;ll do anything he can for you.\u00a0 I know all this because he&#8217;s my son and I&#8217;ve watched him grow from a lovable young kid into a lovable young man&#8230;and then we discovered that God gave him this amazing voice.\u00a0 Look him up on Facebook.\u00a0 Look him up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathangranner.com\">www.nathangranner.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan rode Velvet into the arena behind the flag horses. Velvet is famous too. She took him in that arena at a fox trot.\u00a0 Look at\u00a0 her stride it out.\u00a0 Velvet is a multiple World Grand Champion in the Missouri Fox Trotter Youth Versatility events. She is also the only Missouri Fox Trotter that attained Level 3 in the Parelli levels. She&#8217;s been seen by around 18,000 people as she was in the Parelli USA tour events with <a href=\"http:\/\/forthehorse.org\">Jennifer and Tony Vaught<\/a>.\u00a0 She&#8217;s done it all.<\/p>\n<p>She carried Nathan into the arena, strutting her fox trotter Stuff.\u00a0 Nathan dismounted and sang the National Anthem with those low and high notes that everyone longs to hear. The crowd simultaneously broke out in goose bumps. There must have been a million goose bumps at the historic<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longviewhorsepark.com\/\"> Longview Horse Park<\/a> that Saturday night.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longviewhorsepark.com\/history.htm\">Loula Long Combs<\/a> would have been proud.\u00a0 I bet she heard Nathan and saw all those fox trotters in the arena that Saturday night!<\/p>\n<p>Bring em in at the Fox Trot sez Nathan!!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1590\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1590\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2011\/08\/nathan-and-the-national-anthem-horse-show\/nathan_velvet_longview-horsepark_2011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1590\" title=\"Nathan_Velvet_Longview HorsePark_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Velvet_Longview-HorsePark_2011-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Velvet_Longview-HorsePark_2011-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Velvet_Longview-HorsePark_2011-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nathan_Velvet_Longview-HorsePark_2011.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan and Velvet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother&#8217;s dream come true.\u00a0 Nathan, my wondrous son, sang at the Kansas City Regional Fox Trotter Horse Association Annual Horse show.\u00a0 (I\u00a0 knew you would want to know what KCRFTHA stood for!) Nathan Granner has been all over the world singing.\u00a0 He&#8217;s one of The American Tenors.\u00a0 He is famous and loved by everyone who knows him and has heard him give a concert.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been featured on PBS. The American Tenor Concert filmed at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood was shown all over the USA and Nathan was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nathan-granner","category-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}