{"id":223,"date":"2015-07-26T18:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T22:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2015-08-13T19:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T23:43:24","slug":"welcome-to-the-horseshoe-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Horseshoe Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/wp423\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bobby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-408  alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/wp423\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bobby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Welcome to our new\u00a0\u201cHorseshoe Tour\u201d website\u2026\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m Bobby White, President of The Horseshoe Tour and this is our brand new look online\u2026 what do you think?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a whole lot more than just that\u2026 Not only is it a\u00a0brand new look for us and a\u00a0slight name and logo change as well, but it\u2019s also a massive technology change that takes us fully into the realm of hand held internet access.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4>A little more about the new look and slight logo\/name change\u2026<\/h4>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Over the years, we\u2019ve grown to include players at all levels of the sport, no longer\u00a0just the top\u00a0\u201cPro\u201d players, as was originally intended.\u00a0 So we thought it was time to change to a name, logo and website\u00a0that best represents that.\u00a0\u00a0One thing that hasn\u2019t changed, though,\u00a0is our basic philosophy of\u00a0developing and rewarding\u00a0excellence in the sport\u2026 the competitiveness hasn&#8217;t changed, as The Horseshoe Tour is still an awesome place to test your personal skills in horseshoe pitching&#8230; No, we\u2019ve just\u00a0opened our arms a little further to\u00a0embrace players\u00a0at\u00a0all levels of proficiency and it&#8217;s paying off big for us!\u00a0\u00a0Our family of players\u00a0grows with every event and there&#8217;s no\u00a0end in sight!\u00a0 It seems everyone who comes and plays horseshoes with us has a great time and loves our unique tournament format; word is spreading like lightening&#8230; that makes us happy, our hosts happy and most importantly, the players are happy!\u00a0\u00a0All these positive vibes have led to awesome multi-year deals with most existing hosts and have also made it easy to find new ones.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re all constantly making new friends and so the family grows exponentially\u2026\u00a0By the way, we&#8217;ve heard your cries for tournaments up north again and are seriously looking at two northern sites for the mid-season slots next year&#8230; one awesome brand new one and one old favorite from seasons past!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4>A little more about the technology of our\u00a0new website\u2026<\/h4>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The main thing we\u2019ve done here is condense our previous three websites into just this one main site, so now (well, once it\u2019s completed\u2026 we\u2019re not quite there yet!), you\u2019ll have a one stop shop for everything related to\u00a0The Horseshoe Tour!\u00a0 Not only that, but you\u2019ll also be able to easily access all this information from virtually any type of device\u2026 smartphone, tablet, laptop, PC\u2026 anything with a web browser!\u00a0 It has full touch screen functionality as well as traditional mouse and keyboard capabilities.\u00a0 It senses the type of device you\u2019re using and automatically reacts to\u00a0fit your screen size and type.\u00a0 With the explosion of phone and tablet use these last few years to the point where more than 60% of internet use comes from handheld, touchscreen devices, we couldn\u2019t wait any longer to make this jump to the latest technology.\u00a0 We communicate almost exclusively online with our community of players and so we\u2019ve got to make sure we stay up with the way you are all accessing our website.\u00a0 This new site ensures that for us and we are excited to move forward from here\u2026 everything we add to the site from here on will hold to this priority of multi screen type access.\u00a0 Find us on your phone&#8230; it&#8217;s easy!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4>Going forward with an all new web staff\u2026<\/h4>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We have an all new team of editors who are dedicated to feeding you continuous updates on\u00a0happenings within the Tour itself and also the wider realm of the entire sport of horseshoe pitching.\u00a0 So, if you want to know what\u2019s going on in horseshoes, check here first!\u00a0 We\u2019ll keep you up to date for sure!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h5>Thank you for stopping by to check out our website and once again, welcome to The Horseshoe Tour!<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our new\u00a0\u201cHorseshoe Tour\u201d website\u2026\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m Bobby White, President of The Horseshoe Tour and this is our brand new look online\u2026 what do you think?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a whole lot more than just that\u2026 Not only is it a\u00a0brand new look for us and a\u00a0slight name and logo change as well, but it\u2019s also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehorseshoetour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}