{"id":13523,"date":"2017-10-02T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2017-10-02T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:21:00","slug":"first-post-monday-october-2-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2017\/10\/02\/first-post-monday-october-2-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Monday, October 2, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not fit for human consumption<\/p><\/div>\n

Belated birthday wishes to Kevork the Rocky Mountain Spotted Retriever visiting from Yerevan; he turned 1 yesterday. He had a combined paw-tay with his niece Gilligan Dog over here in sunny Studio City on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Several of their closest pals were in attendance, and pupsicles also were served. This is the future of the ’murrikan service sector right here — petcare. Plus fetishized coffee & ale. Also, cosplay. Not to mention fantasy and e-sports. And you should probably include vaping and shadow-economy gigs such as personal transport and food delivery. What about self-promotion? Right — almost forgot the SOcial MEdia! <\/p>\n

On the other hoof, there are stylish anachronisms that deserve preserving, such as the one-handed topspin backhand, the manual automotive transmission (three on the tree even better!), the voluminous, full cut of the Brooks Bros. oxford-cloth button-down shirt, the strong, nonironical cocktails at Musso & Frank, the substantial fit in the hand of a Zippo, etc. And, most of all, serendipity! We all should have a little unprogrammed grace in our lives. Certainly! Bourgeois? Maybe! Who can say?<\/p>\n

All right, then. There was a conflict yesterday in Belmont 5. It wasn’t really a contentious race on the Betting Line (Fair Odds of 2½-1 on the ‘A’ Horse, then all the way out to 4½-1 on the next choice); however, the LifeLiner had eight of the nine entrants in with at least one 80-plus score on either of the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis or the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis. The conventional way, the race was not contentious; the newfangled way, it was. <\/p>\n

Here’s Street Shark (not to be confused with the great harness star Shark Street) getting the stalking-horse trip and inheriting the lead when the 28-1 frontrunner calls for a Lyft inside the furlong-grounds. The ’Shark hangs on to win by a clean neck at $55.50. The ‘A’ horse fave runs second at 3-1, with the perfecta returning $319 for $2. What are you going to do? <\/p>\n

That said, Finger 5 shapes up as an intriguer, not a big price, but the morning-line fave is a true headscratcher. Also ready to be upset is Mountain 7. <\/p>\n

New-track alert! New-track alert! The always weird Portland Meadows comes online today. Do your best.<\/p>\n

On the other hoof, Zia today is not strange at all. It looks like it should have more than a few morning-line faves prevailing. If you can get two of the three chalk issues home in Races 1, 2 & 4, you’ll be ahead for your day, actually. It sounds hard, but risk is everywhere. Serendipity in the planned existence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belated birthday wishes to Kevork the Rocky Mountain Spotted Retriever visiting from Yerevan; he turned 1 yesterday. He had a combined paw-tay with his niece Gilligan Dog over here in sunny Studio City on Sunday.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-3w7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523","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=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13526,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions\/13526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}