{"id":21901,"date":"2023-07-13T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=21901"},"modified":"2023-07-13T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:25:48","slug":"first-post-thursday-july-13-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/07\/13\/first-post-thursday-july-13-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Thursday, July 13, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7aJ0wH_qWq0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Throwback Thursday now, and here\u2019s a pre-<em>New Gold Dream<\/em> Simple Minds song. If this doesn\u2019t make you want to hoof it down to the nearest discotheque, well, hey, sorry&#8230;?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A little more conventional-sounding electric guitar this time, and, of course, the irresistible trademark bass line this group has always delivered. Climax comes around the 3:50 mark with the guitar squawking in the space between the words, and then, after that, the bass tickling its way infectiously into the next gap.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For snickers &amp; giggles, here\u2019s the very 1980s music video that accompanied the release of the single.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_H7QykJ53g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Again, the visuals are a time capsule, stuck in the 20th-century, a cringe artifact perhaps. But the music undeniably still feels pretty good some 40 yrs. later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Recap<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colonial (Opening Day!), DelPark and, of course, Saratoga (also Opening Day!) on this afternoon\u2019s docket.<\/p>\n<p>In the opener on Opening Day at New Kent, Va., there was one first-timer in there, but probably it did not dissuade you from bagging #5 Watch This Birdie (.177 Win Prob \/ 4.65-1 Fair Odds \/ 6.91-1 Premium Odds) at $18-even. Completing your winning $63.60 exacta was #4 Blessing the Flag (.299 \/ 2.34 \/ 3.01); the premium price on that combos (comboa!) was $55.41. Then in Race 3 there, there was another lone firster in the mix, but hopefully that did not again dissuade you from seeking quarter in #2 Girls House (.591 \/ 0.69 \/ 1.03) at $4.60.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Race 4 at Stanton, Del., #5 Liking It Twisted (.374 \/ 1.67 \/ 2.21) turned into the winner\u2019s circle at $7-even.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Nightcap<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ever-exciting <strong>Evangeline Downs<\/strong> now.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Strongshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 5<br \/>\n#4 Bouldering (.419 \/ 1.39 \/ 1.86)<\/p>\n<p>Race 8<br \/>\n#11 A. P. Style (.316 \/ 2.16 \/ 2.80)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Longshots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Race 2<br \/>\n#8 Zaici (.245 \/ 3.08 \/ 3.90)<br \/>\n#5 Bordeaux Red (.206 \/ 3.85 \/ 5.80)<br \/>\n#2 Pitale (.193 \/ 4.18 \/ 6.25)<br \/>\n#6 Golduster (.178 \/ 4.62 \/ 6.87)<\/p>\n<p>Race 3<br \/>\n#3 Bleep Bleep (.512 \/ 0.95 \/ 1.34)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwback Thursday now, and here\u2019s a pre-New Gold Dream Simple Minds song. If this doesn\u2019t make you want to hoof it down to the nearest discotheque, well, hey, sorry&#8230;?<\/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-21901","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-5Hf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901","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=21901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21902,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions\/21902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}