{"id":48915,"date":"2026-07-04T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48915"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:18:36","slug":"equestrian-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/equestrian-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Equestrian sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/three-horsemen-and-a-carcass\/?noredirect=en-GB\">Kok-boru <\/a><\/strong>carries on an ancient equestrian tradition dating back to the time of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoroastrianism\">Zoroastrianism<\/a><\/strong>. The principle of this game, which is very popular in Central Asia and similar to the Afghan game of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzkashi\"><strong>buzkashi<\/strong><\/a>, is as follows: the riders compete for the decapitated carcass of a goat, which they must wrest from their opponents before carrying it to the <em>kazan<\/em>, the opposing team\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photograph taken in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Credits : <strong>Salom\u00e9 Aldeguer-Roure<\/strong> (France)<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kok-boru carries on an ancient equestrian tradition dating back to the time of Zoroastrianism. The principle of this game, which is very popular in Central Asia and similar to the Afghan game of buzkashi, is as follows: the riders compete for the decapitated carcass of a goat, which they must wrest from their opponents before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2222,"featured_media":48916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,2578,4002],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-kok-boru","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48917,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48915\/revisions\/48917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48915"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}