{"id":253986,"date":"2025-09-25T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:22:12","slug":"charreria-in-cowtown-womens-escaramuza-rodeo-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253986\/","title":{"rendered":"Charrer\u00eda in Cowtown: Women\u2019s Escaramuza &#038; Rodeo Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">One could call it the Mexican rodeo, but we wouldn\u2019t recommend it. Charrer\u00eda is\u00a0the national sport of Mexico that (yes, much like rodeo) arose from skills acquired doing ranch work. However, unlike the rodeo, charreada is a team sport that consists of 10 events (suertes), many of which have rodeo counterparts \u2014 such as bull riding\u00a0and bronc busting\u00a0\u2014 while others don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>One such event is the sole women\u2019s suerte, <a href=\"https:\/\/fwtx.com\/news\/%C2%A1fuerza-the-ballet-on-horse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the escaramuza<\/a>, which tasks a team of eight with performing high-speed sidesaddle equestrian exercises in perfect coordination. The riders, called charras, don elaborate attire \u2014 colorful, pleated, and frilled silk dresses \u2014 rooted in Mexican heritage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One could call it the Mexican rodeo, but we wouldn\u2019t recommend it. Charrer\u00eda is\u00a0the national sport of Mexico&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":253987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,12043,134097,7371,7372,9730,11875,134098,22184,60997,5921,358,7453,29584,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-253986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arts-and-culture","10":"tag-escaramuza","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-fwtx-staff","14":"tag-heritage","15":"tag-hispanic-culture","16":"tag-image","17":"tag-photo-of-the-month","18":"tag-style","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-top-story","21":"tag-tradition","22":"tag-tx","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}