{"id":1124,"date":"2011-06-16T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2011-06-16T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:36:34","slug":"first-post-thursday-june-16-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2011\/06\/16\/first-post-thursday-june-16-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Thursday, June 16, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Portrait of the Artist: James Joyce\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/people.morrisville.edu\/~loudismj\/jjc\/jjpic1.jpg?resize=560%2C712\" title=\"http:\/\/people.morrisville.edu\/~loudismj\/jjc\/jjpic1.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"712\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Joyce \u2014 Bloomsday, June 16<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Happy Bloomsday!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nominally about the title character in <em>Ulysses<\/em>, but truly a celebration of Dublin and the immortal James Joyce. They have a footrace in Spokane on the first Sunday in May; however, today on the Old Sod will feature the much slower pace of pub crawls and the sort of slurred slow-motion staggering that can be a side effect of drinking heavily for hours on end.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is the same James Joyce who famously said: &ldquo;The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses&rdquo;. This, of course, is mainly true, and completely so after visiting any sort of online horseracing <del datetime=\"2011-06-16T16:27:24+00:00\">flameroom<\/del> forum.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">free<\/a> ones:<\/p>\n<p>Rundown<br \/>\n<strong>Belmont<\/strong> 6, 8, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Calder<\/strong> 6, 7, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Hollypark<\/strong> 5, 6, 8<\/p>\n<p>Pay-side:<\/p>\n<p>Rundown<br \/>\n<strong>Churchill<\/strong> 3, 8, 9<br \/>\n<strong>River<\/strong> 2, 6, 7<br \/>\n<strong>Woodbine<\/strong> 4, 6, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Colonial<\/strong> 5, 6, 7<br \/>\n<strong>Louisiana<\/strong> 2, 6, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Lone Star<\/strong> 7, 8, 9<\/p>\n<p>WMF Report: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Speed<\/strong><br \/>\nCalder 6f<br \/>\nChas. Town 6&frac12;f<br \/>\nEvangeline 1m<br \/>\nFinger 6f<br \/>\nLone Star 5f (T)<br \/>\nPresque 6f<br \/>\nRiver 5&frac12;f, 6f, 1m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rally<\/strong><br \/>\nCalder 1 1\/16m (T)<br \/>\nHollypark 1 1\/16m<\/p>\n<p>Nocturnal Submission: In the <strong>seventh<\/strong> at <strong>Chas. Town<\/strong> (9:58 p.m. EDT \/ 6:58 PDT), <strong>#9 Foolish Bid<\/strong> may prove not to be a folly; backup served by <strong>#3 Reckless Runner<\/strong>. &#8230;<strong>Race 9<\/strong> at <strong>Evangeline<\/strong> (10:16 \/ 7:16), <strong>#1 Warpaint Annie<\/strong> looks best. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Bloomsday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,5],"tags":[13,7,6],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-stakes","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-i8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}