{"id":26154,"date":"1998-11-14T14:53:15","date_gmt":"1998-11-14T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=26154"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:30:53","slug":"earl-w-bascom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/earl-w-bascom\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl W. Bascom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26155\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EWBOld-Time-Bronc-Rider.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26155\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26155\" alt=\"EWB&amp;Old Time Bronc Rider\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EWBOld-Time-Bronc-Rider-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EWBOld-Time-Bronc-Rider-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EWBOld-Time-Bronc-Rider-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EWBOld-Time-Bronc-Rider-900x1120.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl W. Bascom. Photo courtesy John A. Bascom.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995) was born in Vernal, Utah, raised in Alberta, Canada and lived in California where he died.\u00a0 He was a graduate of BYU in 1940.\u00a0 He has been inducted into seven halls of fame, mostly for his rodeo career and has been called the &#8220;Father of Modern Rodeo&#8221; for his many rodeo equipment inventions.\u00a0 <var id=\"yiv4133981901yui-ie-cursor\"><\/var>He was a painter, printmaker and sculptor. You can see some of his art and history at <a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1405359558684_93456\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bascombronze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.bascombronze.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995) was born in Vernal, Utah, raised in Alberta, Canada and lived in California where he died.\u00a0 He was a graduate of BYU in 1940.\u00a0 He has been inducted into seven halls of fame, mostly for his rodeo career and has been called the &#8220;Father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":26155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[2036],"class_list":["post-26154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-utah-artists","tag-earl-w-bascom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EWBOld-Time-Bronc-Rider.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 22:34:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56253,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154\/revisions\/56253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}