{"id":4251,"date":"2014-10-03T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rhworldimagery.wordpress.com\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:42:41","slug":"fight-of-the-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/fight-of-the-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every October, these feisty Herens cows fight each other in the otherwise\u00a0sleepy\u00a0Swiss village of Aproz, in an event known as the Battle\u00a0of the Queens (Combats de Reines).<\/p>\n<p>The cows start their fight\u00a0(Thorsten Negro\/Robert Harding)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=fight of queens\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4255 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301311.jpg\" alt=\"Combat of queens, Swiss cow fighting, cow fighting arena Aproz, Valais, Switzerland\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301311.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301311-368x245.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cow bells, winner prizes\u00a0(Thorsten Negro\/Robert Harding)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=fight of queens\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4254 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301319.jpg\" alt=\"Cow bells, winner prizes, Combat of queens, Swiss cow fighting, Aproz, Valais, Switzerland\" width=\"480\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301319.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301319-465x245.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Locking\u00a0horns to see which\u00a0cow will admit defeat (Thorsten Negro\/Robert Harding)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=fight of queens\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4252 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301312.jpg\" alt=\"Combat of queens, Swiss cow fighting, cow fighting arena Aproz, Valais, Switzerland\" width=\"480\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301312.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/832-301312-372x245.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more images from the Fight of the Queens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=fight%20of queens\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every October, these feisty Herens cows fight each other in the otherwise\u00a0sleepy\u00a0Swiss village of Aproz, in an event known as the Battle\u00a0of the Queens (Combats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,51,268,281,382,1034],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-animals","tag-aproz","tag-competition","tag-cows","tag-fight-of-queens","tag-switzerland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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