{"id":2183,"date":"2007-09-18T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T22:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/gene-autrys-cowboy-code\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T23:55:47","slug":"gene-autrys-cowboy-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/gene-autrys-cowboy-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Autry&#8217;s Cowboy Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autry created the <em>Cowboy Code<\/em> or <em>Cowboy Commandments<\/em> in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like Gene. I used to play keyboards for Roy Rogers Jr. &#8211; see Roy Rogers and Gene Autry had a friendly rivalry between them, all in good fun. But I&#8217;d bet my saddle that Roy would agree with this list too.<\/p>\n<p>1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.<\/p>\n<p>2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.<\/p>\n<p>3. He must always tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.<\/p>\n<p>5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.<\/p>\n<p>6. He must help people in distress.<\/p>\n<p>7. He must be a good worker.<\/p>\n<p>8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.<\/p>\n<p>9. He must respect women, parents, and his nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laws.<\/p>\n<p>10. The Cowboy is a patriot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autry created the Cowboy Code or Cowboy Commandments in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like Gene. I used to play keyboards for Roy Rogers Jr. &#8211; see Roy Rogers and Gene Autry had a friendly rivalry between them, all in good fun. But I&#8217;d bet my saddle that Roy would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-zd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}