{"id":6957,"date":"2011-03-07T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2011-03-07T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:59:20","slug":"saddle-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6957","title":{"rendered":"Saddle up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hair-on-cowhide-rug-brindle-9117-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6958\" title=\"hair-on-cowhide-rug-brindle-9117-04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hair-on-cowhide-rug-brindle-9117-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>If you have your heart set on a new saddle or pair of chaps, don&#8217;t put off the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Leather prices are on the way up, according to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704504404576184631693526482.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Driven by an increase in demand for leather goods in Asian countries, as well as the demand for luxury items worldwide, cattle hide prices are at their highest &#8211; $82 apiece &#8211; in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, hide prices increased 24 percent over the previous year and the U.S. Commerce Department reported the value of cattle hide exports at $1.373 billion in 2010, up 68 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Lower supplies from Australia, in the aftermath of drought and flooding, are also expected to impact world market prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have your heart set on a new saddle or pair of chaps, don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6960,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}