{"id":233,"date":"2010-11-03T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=233"},"modified":"2010-11-03T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:35:23","slug":"additional-eurocentric-screeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2010\/11\/03\/additional-eurocentric-screeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional Eurocentric Screeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> has been doing us a literary service all week, what with Jane Smiley contributing to their &#8220;Rail&#8221; blog and now the esteemed Bill Barich offering his two bucks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Barich piece, available <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds1.nytimes.com\/~r\/nyt\/rss\/Sports\/~3\/4eus8_HOoqQ\/\">here<\/a> is in praise of the friendly local bookmaker, legal, of course, on that side of the Water.<\/p>\n<p>The next three are for perspective on this whole Zenyatta phenomenon, plus the rock-hard turf course at Churchill, a major danger to the great Workforce&#8217;s possibility of entering, let alone winning, not to mention Midday&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Zenyatta, through the bemused eye of the racing correspondent for the <em>Telegraph<\/em>, a Tory broadsheet: read it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/horseracing\/8108664\/Breeders-Cup-2010-Zenyatta-dazzles-and-the-racing-has-not-even-started-yet.html\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Workforce&#8217;s quandary, as described in the solid proletarian tabloid <em>Daily Mail<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/racing\/article-1325978\/Breeders-Cup-favourite-Workforce-run-amid-ground-concerns.html?ITO=1490\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Midday&#8217;s scenario, also from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/racing\/article-1325963\/No-excuses-Henry-Cecil-wont-use-firm-ground-Midday-fails-Breeders-Cup-Filly-amp-Mare-Turf.html?ITO=1490\">Mail<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>OK. We&#8217;ll have a quiz on all this assigned reading later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has been doing us a literary service all week, what with Jane Smiley contributing to their &#8220;Rail&#8221; blog and now the esteemed Bill Barich offering his two bucks.<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[13,14,12],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stakes","tag-commentary","tag-human-interest","tag-news-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-3L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}