{"id":21710,"date":"2023-04-07T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=21710"},"modified":"2023-04-07T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:05:42","slug":"first-post-friday-april-7-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/04\/07\/first-post-friday-april-7-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Friday, April 7, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJUhlRoBL8M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The cul-de-sac that\u2019s home to the Home Office up here in Upper Nichols Canyon has seen some illustrious residents through the years. These are guys you have seen on television many, many times. Some of the shows they have been on include \u2018The Electric Company\u2019, the original 1950s \u2018Mickey Mouse Club\u2019 &amp; \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019. But in the last couple of months, our newest neighbor moved-in, and he\u2019s the guy here in the video lede singing the famous song, apt for today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Monty, as we have come to call him, is a right lovely chappie, exceedingly cordial, always cheery and still pretty spry, if prone to uttering the universal F-word even in mixed company. We talk about English <em>futbol<\/em>, classic sketches from his comedy career and, of course, dogs. That is, after all, how you meet all your best neighbors \u2014 while walking your respective dogs. Like us, Mr. Monty spent his formative years in residential secondary school, though safe to say he had the better outcome. He\u2019s on the right side of the social arguments, backing up the famous Gary Lineker and that man\u2019s campaign for human rights, and he generally sides with the same outlook as another famous good sport, Mistah John Cleese.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Monty has already tipped The Arsenal to win the Premiership, and we hope his powers of prognostication are as sharp as his wit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Recap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Aqueduct, Keeneland (Opening Day!) &amp; Santa Anita from before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Race 2 at the former, #1 Balpool (.322 Win Prob \/ 2.11-1 Fair Odds \/ 2.73-1 Premium Odds) went swimmingly to win at $7.70. Then in Race 7, #8 Mommasgottarun (.175 \/ 4.71 \/ 7.00) did just that at the right-on-the-premium mutuel of $16-even up top.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Nightcap<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chas. Town<\/strong> again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Strongshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 7<br \/>\n#8 Elvirus (.221 \/ 3.52 \/ 4.43)<\/p>\n<p>Race 8<br \/>\n#2 Amidships (.417 \/ 1.40 \/ 1.88)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Longshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 2<br \/>\n#2 Vegas Princess (.337 \/ 1.97 \/ 2.56)<br \/>\n#7 Let\u2019s Do This (.152 \/ 5.58 \/ 8.21)<\/p>\n<p>Race 3<br \/>\n#2 Better Boogie (.222 \/ 3.50 \/ 4.41)<br \/>\n#8 Barry Karafin Bets (.218 \/ 3.59 \/ 4.50)<br \/>\n#6 Awesome Beach (.194 \/ 4.15 \/ 5.19)<br \/>\n#4 Barnstorm (.151 \/ 5.62 \/ 8.27)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cul-de-sac that\u2019s home to the Home Office up here in Upper Nichols Canyon has seen some illustrious residents through the years. These are guys you have seen on television many, many times. Some of the shows they have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/04\/07\/first-post-friday-april-7-2023\/\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21710","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-5Ea","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710","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=21710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21711,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions\/21711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}