{"id":1080,"date":"2017-03-14T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2017-03-23T23:47:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T23:47:44","slug":"2017-abba-sponsor-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/2017-abba-sponsor-year-award","title":{"rendered":"2017 ABBA Sponsor of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>2017 ABBA SPONSOR OF THE YEAR AWARD<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1082 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-trophy-ABBA-sponsor-of-the-year-274x300.png\" alt=\"memorial-trophy-ABBA-sponsor-of-the-year\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-trophy-ABBA-sponsor-of-the-year-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-trophy-ABBA-sponsor-of-the-year-600x657.png 600w, https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-trophy-ABBA-sponsor-of-the-year-383x420.png 383w, https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-trophy-ABBA-sponsor-of-the-year.png 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Appel Ford of Brenham, Texas will receive the 2017 ABBA Sponsor of the Year award during the ABBA Membership Meeting in Houston, Texas March 8, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSponsor of the Year recognition is given to individuals or organizations for assisting the American Brahman Breeders Association to give opportunities to our members,\u201d ABBA Executive Vice President Chris Shivers said. \u201cYear after year, Appel Ford has provided vans free of charge during the rodeo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shuttle van service provides ABBA members and international guests with transportation to and from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo\u2019s Brahman activities. Without it, some people would not be able to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, back in the early 2000s, the dealership donated a vehicle to the association for the ABBA executive Vice President to drive,\u201d Shivers said.<\/p>\n<p>Before he passed away, ABBA member Ken Hughes was an owner at Appel Ford. Ken and his brother, Glenn, were well-known F1 producers. Ken had young family members (nieces and nephews) who participated in the junior programs.<\/p>\n<p>Appel Ford has generously continued to support the association since Ken\u2019s passing in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 ABBA SPONSOR OF THE YEAR AWARD Appel Ford of Brenham, Texas will receive the 2017 ABBA Sponsor of the Year award during the ABBA Membership Meeting in Houston, Texas March 8, 2017. \u201cSponsor of the Year recognition is given to individuals or organizations for assisting the American Brahman Breeders Association to give opportunities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abba-news","8":"category-american-brahman-breeders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}