{"id":21584,"date":"2023-01-04T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=21584"},"modified":"2023-01-04T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:29:29","slug":"first-post-wednesday-january-4-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/01\/04\/first-post-wednesday-january-4-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Wednesday, January 4, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mOdHYX4o-wY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As we do each year, we remember the events that took place outside Chase, Md., on this date in 1987.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Another January 4 arrives, and The Universe is still letting us participate in The Game. It could have literally all come to a crashing end 36 years ago today, but through some lucky blend of cosmic benevolence &amp; mysterious grace, here we are. If you told us we\u2019d end up in 2023, at age 55-and-counting, with acceptance (self- and otherwise) &amp; love &amp; family, not just one of those, but all three, in quantities that seemed unattainable &amp; undeserved, we would have snickered and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this is how it is turning-out, right now. We cannot deny it, and we do not wish to push it away. As always, it could all come to a crashing end after we hit \u2018Publish\u2019 on this post, or start degrading slowly tomorrow \u2014 it is not for us to know for certain! But we accept that potential and try to keep going, perhaps backward, maybe sideways, hopefully forward, for whatever amount of time the fates have cut out for us.<\/p>\n<p>Good, bad, indifferent \u2014 those are all unnecessary judgments. If the passage of moments, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years &amp; decades has taught us anything, it\u2019s this: it\u2019s enough to just show up and then play The Game however the situation presents itself. Control is a mirage, and The Universe typically laughs at any single creature\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p>Just show up, do what you can, try to be a helpful soul, or at least a harmless one, and then step back and let the gods decree what they shall. They\u2019ll give you friends, they\u2019ll give you health, they\u2019ll give you stepsons &amp; stepgrandchildren who adore you, they\u2019ll give you a partner &amp; a canine who are faithful beyond faithful. And then they can take all those things away.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, just show up; you\u2019re still in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Amen. Shantih, shantih, shantih.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Recap<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gulf &amp; Tampa today from sunny &amp; warm Florida.<\/p>\n<p>In the eighth at the former, #6 Laker Mamba (.135 Win Prob \/ 6.41-1 Fair Odds \/ 9.37-1 Premium Odds) won it for Kobe &amp; the Rest of the Purple &amp; Gold at $45.40. The exacta with runner-up #11 Exult (.140 \/ 6.14 \/ 7.57) paid $237.80; it needed to pay $160.60 to be a premium-type proposition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Nightcap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turfway<\/strong> tonight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Strongshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 3<br \/>\n#1 Fancy Liquor (.280 \/ 2.57 \/ 3.29)<\/p>\n<p>Race 7<br \/>\n#10 Hurricane Debbie (.235 \/ 3.26 \/ 4.11)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Longshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 2<br \/>\n#4 Idiomatic (.411 \/ 1.43 \/ 1.92)<br \/>\n#1 Quality Star (.221 \/ 3.52 \/ 4.43)<\/p>\n<p>Race 6<br \/>\n#3 Tiltingatwindmills (.140 \/ 6.14 \/ 9.00)<br \/>\n#1 Complete (.136 \/ 6.35 \/ 9.29)<br \/>\n#5 Texas Magic (.134 \/ 6.46 \/ 9.45)<br \/>\n#4 A Real Hero (.127 \/ 6.87 \/ 10.02)<br \/>\n#8 Taperinea (.118 \/ 7.47 \/ 10.86)<br \/>\n#10 Elusive Justice (.112 \/ 7.93 \/ 11.50)<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Allah willing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we do each year, we remember the events that took place outside Chase, Md., on this date in 1987.<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21584","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-5C8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21584","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=21584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21585,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21584\/revisions\/21585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}