{"id":14097,"date":"2018-01-18T10:42:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2018-01-18T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:46:38","slug":"first-post-thursday-january-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2018\/01\/18\/first-post-thursday-january-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Thursday, January 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NYlDWSJM_Ac\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Good video here. Laurel Canyon (and its eponymous boulevard) is mythical and mystical enough, but when you realize that you get to cross, southbound, three other iconic La-La Land thoroughfares &mdash; Ventura Blvd. (at the 2:38 mark), Mulholland Dr. (3:14) and Sunset Blvd. (4:32) &mdash; well, hey&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also, the summit is at Mulholland: down north, you reach Ventura, down south, you get to Sunset. As well, it is a good thrill at night to go up in either direction while driving a manual transmission. There is a spot southbound about a mile from Mulholland where it is quite an experience to downshift from fifth gear to third to maintain velocity, nae, rather to <em>accelerate<\/em> around a gentle bend. It&rsquo;s a little like in that motion picture <em>The Graduate<\/em> where Benjamin and Elaine are zipping down Sunset in the Alfa-Romeo while the transmission (and its foreign clutch!) is engaged and disengaged with consummate ease. Not quite, but nearly as fun!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Fleet Frontrunners<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nAqueduct 4<br \/>\nChas. Town 2, 7<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Reliable Ralliers<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nGulf 7, 9<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Favorable Faves<\/u><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\nDelta 3, 9<br \/>\nGulf 4<br \/>\nPennNat 1<br \/>\n<sup><b>*<\/b><\/sup>-morning-line faves only; break to a nickel in the event of a dead heat<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Freakazoid Factories<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nAqueduct 5, 8<br \/>\nGulf 9<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>YESTERDAY&rsquo;s Fine Finishes<\/u><sup>&Dagger;<\/strong><br \/>\nChas. Town 5, 8<br \/>\nGulf 8<br \/>\nTampa 10<br \/>\n<strong><sup>&Dagger;<\/sup><\/strong>-High-Octane Chancers doin&rsquo; it exclusively with All-In-One V6 and its LifeLiner Speed Column analysis and LifeLiner Spread Column analysis, without regard to operational definitions of faves or freakazoids; thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Since we haven&rsquo;t said it in a while, drive safely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good video here. Laurel Canyon (and its eponymous boulevard) is mythical and mystical enough, but when you realize that you get to cross, southbound, three other iconic La-La Land thoroughfares &mdash; Ventura Blvd. (at the 2:38 mark), Mulholland Dr. (3:14) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2018\/01\/18\/first-post-thursday-january-18-2018\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14097","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-3Fn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097","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=14097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14104,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions\/14104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}