{"id":18180,"date":"2020-04-04T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=18180"},"modified":"2020-04-04T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:39:09","slug":"first-post-saturday-april-4-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2020\/04\/04\/first-post-saturday-april-4-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Saturday, April 4, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UTLOjx30uas?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So long, Steve. Book \u2019em, Danno. After 10 years, the <em>Hawaii Five-0<\/em> reboot begun in 2010 came to its conclusion last night. We were there. <em>Aloha<\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was not Peak TV, though we admittedly do not fully comprehend what Peak TV is, having watched zero episodes combined of Tony Soprano &amp; Little Omar &amp; Walter White &amp; Jon Snow, or even Cartman or Steven Universe. For us, maybe a handful of episodes of <em>Narcos: Carcasses&nbsp;<\/em>and the current episodes of <em>The Larrie David Kvetch Comedy<\/em> are the extent of our knowledge of what the cool viewers are tuning into. Regrets!<\/p>\n<p>Yet we saw all 240-260 episodes of the <em>H50<\/em> reboot. Mostly it was out of allegiance to the original show, the one with Jack Lord and Jm. MacArthur and \u2018ZULU AS KONO\u2019. Now that show, from the late-1960s to about 1980, clearly was Peak TV for its time; it was way ahead of the curve in terms of its treatment of social issues such as racism, privilege, economic inequality \u2014 you name it. It also had episodes, way back then, that presaged the technological ills that still plague us: computer-hacking, jury-tampering, beefroids (yes, really!) and, amazingly, biological warfare and the Chinese flooding the U.S. with cheap products and money. What a show!<\/p>\n<p>The reboot was never that savvy, but it did provide easy entertainment and relatively clearcut moral boundaries; you never were tempted to root for the bad guys. For this reason, the reboot was a good gateway to the weekend, a not-too-demanding Friday-night ritual that allowed for a stressless transition to the relaxation of Saturday &amp; Sunday. Yes, some of the scenarios were ridiculous (no helmets; the Five-0 squad having vanquished thousands of goons yet never suffering a single casualty in the line of duty; female squad members dressed like hoochie-coochie mamas even at headquarters; McGarrett &amp; Danno having dispatched of unsecured nuclear missiles, having landed airplanes on the beach, having gone rogue to South America and the Middle East to settle old scores) but that was kind of the point. With no ambitions toward greatness or genius, the reboot was something you could take at face-value: 48 mins. of entertainment, generally with a clean conclusion each week. It was reliable; it was steady.<\/p>\n<p>So, in this age of loss and dread and the ending of things, we add <em>Hawaii Five-0<\/em> the reboot to the list. <em>Aloha. Mahalo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We will post yesterday\u2019s (Friday\u2019s) accounting in the next edition of \u2018First Post\u2019. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report \/ Track-Trend Notes<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WMF Report \/ Track-Trend Notes for Saturday, April 4, 2020 &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GulfstreamPark?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GulfstreamPark<\/a> 6f, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/losalracing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@losalracing<\/a> 4 1\/2f up-and-at-&#39;em from the get-go. That&#39;s a lot of hyphens there.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cynthia Publishing Company (AIO V6 \/ BestLine) (@cpcbestline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpcbestline\/status\/1246507852392361985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Follow directly: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cpcbestline\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=THS&amp;Product_Code=ZONGO&amp;Category_Code=\">Zongo Race Club<\/a> suggests <strong>Gulf 8<\/strong>, <strong>12<\/strong>, <strong>Oaklawn 9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So long, Steve. Book \u2019em, Danno. After 10 years, the Hawaii Five-0 reboot begun in 2010 came to its conclusion last night. We were there. 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