{"id":22594,"date":"2023-11-28T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=22594"},"modified":"2023-11-28T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:31:05","slug":"first-post-tuesday-november-28-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/11\/28\/first-post-tuesday-november-28-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Tuesday, November 28, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22595\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22595\" data-attachment-id=\"22595\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/11\/28\/first-post-tuesday-november-28-2023\/dscn8762\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C741&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,741\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX P900&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1701200640&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"universalcityoverlook11282023\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;universalcityoverlook11282023&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sweeping&amp;#8230;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?fit=300%2C87&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?fit=640%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22595\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?resize=640%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"universalcityoverlook11282023\" width=\"640\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C87&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C444&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C593&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSCN8762-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweeping&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here it is, a beautiful blue-sky day above your East (San Fernando) Valley from the vantage point of the Universal City Overlook along Mulholland Drive. It was about 65\u00b0F, with a stringent 25 percent relative humidity and a visibility rating of 28 mi., when this panorama was stitched together just after high noon in the crisp &amp; picturesque Golden West. So, you can start to understand why, after checking-in to the proverbial Hotel (Southern) California, you can never leave \u2014 not voluntarily, anyway, unless you are one of those Attila the Hun edgelords simply making some kind of performative political\/culture-war statement. Go right ahead and depart; enjoy the unbearable heat, freezing cold &amp; rusty power grids in Tejas (Tejas!) or the swampy humidity, bugs &amp; rampant social diseases breeding like crazy in Florida. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As well, it\u2019s nice not to have to worry about the potentially deadly combination of open-carry, aggrieved \u2018natives\u2019 and any micro- (or macro-) aggressions they might want to perpetrate on us \u2018others\u2019. We \u2018others\u2019 are not volunteering to be their victims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Recap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Three daytime tracks again.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Youngstown, Ohio<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>opener<\/strong> was a sorry-not-sorry-what-first-timers? win for&nbsp;<strong>#7 Oh Glorious Day<\/strong> (.834 Win Prob \/ 0.20-1 Fair Odds \/ 0.44-1 Premium Odds) at&nbsp;<strong>$3.60<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Race 5<\/strong> from&nbsp;<strong>Hobbs, N.M.<\/strong>, went to&nbsp;<strong>#5 Mine That Star&nbsp;<\/strong>(.511 \/ 0.96 \/ 1.35) at&nbsp;<strong>$5.80<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BestLine Racing Society Nightcap<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Was going to be <strong>The Mountain<\/strong> again, but they have canceled their festivities. Yea, verily, on Giving Tuesday, they doth taketh away! West Virginia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, a beautiful blue-sky day above your East (San Fernando) Valley from the vantage point of the Universal City Overlook along Mulholland Drive. It was about 65\u00b0F, with a stringent 25 percent relative humidity and a visibility rating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2023\/11\/28\/first-post-tuesday-november-28-2023\/\">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-22594","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-5Sq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594","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=22594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22596,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594\/revisions\/22596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}