{"id":27059,"date":"2025-04-12T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=27059"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T22:27:41","slug":"first-post-saturday-april-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2025\/04\/12\/first-post-saturday-april-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Saturday, April 12, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dayenu041225B\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1074982747?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year&#8230;in the chorus? Hoo-boy. There are perhaps six or seven regular curiosity-seekers of this here Web log, and some of them are of the Judaic religious tradition \u2014 who knew! To those mensches who would not even form a minyan, a joyous and renewing Passover to yourselves. Enough (enough! we had enough!)  of this plonking already, the better plonking is via Manischewitz \u2014 oh, what a wine! <em>Chaga samecha pesacha<\/em>, if that\u2019s how you say it; we are admittedly new to your ancient language. <em>L\u2019chaim, mazel, etc.!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>OK, ya\u2019 Seder-havers! Here\u2019s the first four even races this evening from that noted haven for the diaspora, <strong>Evangeline Downs<\/strong> in <strong>Opelousas<\/strong> in <strong>Louisiana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"27062\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2025\/04\/12\/first-post-saturday-april-12-2025\/sat0412evd2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sat0412EvD2.jpg?fit=2430%2C1974&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2430,1974\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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