{"id":12453,"date":"2017-01-19T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:39:35","slug":"first-post-thursday-january-19-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2017\/01\/19\/first-post-thursday-january-19-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Thursday, January 19, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IN05jVNBs64\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last day of The Oblahblah Administration now, and while he tended to deport (!) himself gracefully and tastefully, there were more than a few failures and contradictions: Guantanamo still open, killer drone strikes all over the place, embarrassingly yawning Mideast rebel training, an unmerited Nobel Peace Prize, Fast and Furious gun-smuggling, violable red lines, inability or reluctance to engage in legislative battles, etc. Surely he could be too cool for school. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yup. Willie Shakes was right: the evil men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. However, there remains a sense that here was a President whose beliefs were at least broad and motivated by more than personal enrichment. Starting tomorrow at just after noon EST \/ 9 a.m. PST, we will all have to come face-to-face with a Chief Executive whose main drivers seem to be greed, vengeance and The Almighty Dollar, specifically the one that accrues to himself alone. What else lurks in that soul of Don Trump Sr., who knows? Let&rsquo;s hope it won&rsquo;t change us too much for the worse. Hail!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gulfstream Park Proper<\/strong> 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side (<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLLS&#038;Category_Code=\">Weekend<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLL1&#038;Category_Code=\">Weekday<\/a>)<\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> <em>4<\/em>, <em>6<\/em>, <em>7<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Oaklawn<\/strong> <em>2<\/em>, 3, <em>5<\/em>, <em>8<\/em>, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Turfway<\/strong> <em>2<\/em>, 3, <em>4<\/em>, <em>5<\/em>, 7, <em>8<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: None today, but the Australian Open lawn-tennis tournament continues today with an interesting matchup between two likable fellows: No. 12 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (not the same as the late Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass.) of France and No. 23 seed Jack Sock (not the same as the fast-food mogul Jack N.T. Box) from the U.S. First ball struck in anger at 9 p.m. EST \/ 6 p.m. PST. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p>Track (Win Mutuels $20+\/Gettable)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chas. Town (1\/&frac12;)<\/strong> &mdash; Old-School Champeens had Fair Odds of 5-1 in a quasi-contentious Race 2; she won via DQ at $28.80. Good work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delta (1\/1)<\/strong> &mdash; Race 7 was classically contentious, but only High-Octane Chancers and Progressive-Minded Eggheads could dance to Margaret&rsquo;s Song, 81 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis; she raced tail-to-wire to win by 4&frac34; at $34.20. Good work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gulf (2\/1)<\/strong> &mdash; The opener was not contentious, but High-Octane Chancers and Progressive-Minded Eggheads responded to Call to Honor, a good 85 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis; he raced ribcage-to-wire to win by a clean half-length at $20.40. Good work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mahoning (0\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Former Farrell police officer facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PennNat (0\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Host 76ers nip Toronto, 94-89; Joel Embiid led all scorers with 26 pts. for Philalala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tampa (1\/1)<\/strong> &mdash; The appropriately named Dual Qualifier Two to One (80, 84) was good for High-Octane Chancers and Progressive-Minded Eggheads in a contentious Race 8; she raced tail-to-wire to win by 3 parts of a length at $25-even. Good work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turfway (2\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Train blocks entrance to Kenton Co. home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Delta<\/strong> 7f<br \/>\n<strong>PennNat<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n<p><em>Rally<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Gulf<\/strong> 7&frac12;f (T)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Sifting through the wreckage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Obama out! Peace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last day of The Oblahblah Administration now, and while he tended to deport (!) himself gracefully and tastefully, there were more than a few failures and contradictions: Guantanamo still open, killer drone strikes all over the place, embarrassingly yawning Mideast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2017\/01\/19\/first-post-thursday-january-19-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[11,4,5,3],"tags":[8,13,7,6],"class_list":["post-12453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-stakes","category-wmf","tag-analysis","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-3eR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453","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=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12457,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions\/12457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}