{"id":13922,"date":"2017-12-21T11:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=13922"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:31:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:31:56","slug":"first-post-thursday-december-21-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2017\/12\/21\/first-post-thursday-december-21-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Thursday, December 21, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8fQmfz8Kow\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Had a roommate in college who used to put this on the cassette deck to help us get to sleep at night. Of course you&rsquo;re going to hear Pachelbel on an infinite loop this time of year, so we&rsquo;re not being abusive or anything. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Remember the one time it snowed in New Orleans, maybe December 1987 or 1988, can&rsquo;t remember for sure. We walked out of a cocktail party and there it was. The neutral ground was good and damp and soft, so we were uprooting the signs alongside the streetcar tracks, signs that said things like, &lsquo;This Section of Streetcar Line Maintained by Ochsner Clinic&rsquo; or &lsquo;&#8230;by Temple Touro&rsquo; or &lsquo;&#8230;by D.H. Holmes&rsquo;, etc. You get the idea. We bore our treasure the length of St. Charles Ave., shivering in blue blazers and grey flannel, and deposited them in a drunken stupor at the old Zeta Psi house on Broadway. Come morning, the brothers were duly impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Still haven&rsquo;t been in La-La Land during a snowfall. It <em>has<\/em> happened here in the last 26 yrs., but on that day we were in Colorado instead, where indeed there was plenty of the white stuff. Cazart!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Reliable Ralliers<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nFair Grounds 4, 8<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Favorable Faves<\/u><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\nDelta 9<br \/>\nFair Grounds 5<br \/>\nGulf 7<br \/>\nPennNat 3, 7<br \/>\nTurfway 8<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Freakazoid Factories<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nGulf 9<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>YESTERDAY&rsquo;s Fine Finishes<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nFair Grounds 6<br \/>\nTampa 6<br \/>\nTurf Paradise 8<\/p>\n<p>Raceday scratches current as of 11:15 a.m. PST.<\/p>\n<p><sup><b>*<\/b><\/sup>-morning-line faves only; model priced as shown<\/p>\n<p>No snow here in La-La Land this year, either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a roommate in college who used to put this on the cassette deck to help us get to sleep at night. 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