{"id":21735,"date":"2023-04-26T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T22:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=21735"},"modified":"2023-04-26T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T22:22:05","slug":"first-post-wednesday-april-26-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/04\/26\/first-post-wednesday-april-26-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Wednesday, April 26, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We were taught a footballing lesson by City tonight. Not much more to it than that.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Timmons (@PatrickTimmons1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTimmons1\/status\/1651330384704020480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And so the 2022-23 English Premiership title chase ended this evening with defending champeens Manchester City routing your visiting No. London Arse, 4-1. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our teams, the Arse, the La-La Land Los Kings, began the week with much promise. A win tonight against Manchester City could have given the Arse the whip hand in the run-in to the title race; now it\u2019s pretty much just playing out the string of the last five contests. Then the Kings went ahead 3-nil inside the first 20 mins. of Sunday\u2019s game against visiting, villainous Edmonton; if they could hold on, the Los Angelenos would have a 3-1 series stranglehold over the Albertans. Instead, the Oilers fought all the way back to prevail in the overtime, 4-3. Then last night, another Kings loss last night put our ice-hockey heroes on the verge of elimination; no more margin for error. It could be over on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>So it is for us sports fans. None of this toxic sci-fi\/cosplay fandom about who gets cast in what role, who directs whom in the sequel, whether a character is canon or not \u2014 all of these are merely one-off spectacles not played out for public consumption, and it\u2019s much frothing and ado about nothing. Nope. For the politics\/sportsball fans, their emotions are based on the up-and-down reality of results on the scoreboard, the concrete, not some ginned-up outrage over ridiculous matters. If you are going to have overreactions over something, at least overreactions in the sports\/politics realm are tangible and reviewable, meaningful to real-world citizens, whereas overreactions in sci-fi\/cosplay are just niche grievances for the droolers, lispers &amp; other assorted sunlight-challenged mopes. Harsh, but probably fair! Maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Recap<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keystone \/ Phila. Park \/ ParXXX &amp; Tampa from before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth at the latter, #7 English Bob (.258 Win Prob \/ 2.88-1 Fair Odds \/ 3.65-1 Premium Odds) spun into the winner\u2019s circle at $11-even. Next race there, #1 Wow Wish (.183 \/ 4.46 \/ 6.65) and #6 Playground Legend (.313 \/ 2.19 \/ 2.83) combined for your winning $59.20 exacta whose premium price was $50.93. Finally, in the closer, #10 Sign and Seal (.149 \/ 5.71 \/ 8.40) delivered the upset at $29-even.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Nightcap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evangeline<\/strong> tonight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Strongshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 7<br \/>\n#2 Dixie Farmer (.326 \/ 2.07 \/ 2.68)<\/p>\n<p>Race 8<br \/>\n#4 Dreamed I Am Fast (.406 \/ 1.46 \/ 1.96)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Longshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 3<br \/>\n#6 Forged in Steel (.223 \/ 3.48 \/ 4.38)<br \/>\n#3 Bello Creedo (.216 \/ 3.63 \/ 4.56)<br \/>\n#2 Wildcard Gold (.208 \/ 3.81 \/ 4.77)<br \/>\n#8 Talk to Tokey (.128 \/ 6.81 \/ 9.94)<\/p>\n<p>Race 6<br \/>\n#1 Baquero\u2019s Bind (.237 \/ 3.22 \/ 4.06)<br \/>\n#5 Itellyouthefacts (.118 \/ 7.47 \/ 10.86)<br \/>\n#8 Hope for Change (.112 \/ 7.93 \/ 11.50)<br \/>\n#2 General Eisenhower (.111 \/ 8.01 \/ 11.61)<br \/>\n#10 Ted Striker (.106 \/ 8.43 \/ 12.21)<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Come On You Gunners! #COYG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were taught a footballing lesson by City tonight. Not much more to it than that. &mdash; Patrick Timmons (@PatrickTimmons1) April 26, 2023 And so the 2022-23 English Premiership title chase ended this evening with defending champeens Manchester City routing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/04\/26\/first-post-wednesday-april-26-2023\/\">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-21735","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-5Ez","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735","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=21735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21736,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions\/21736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}