{"id":5798,"date":"2014-01-23T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2014-01-23T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:27:04","slug":"first-post-thursday-january-23-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/01\/23\/first-post-thursday-january-23-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Thursday, January 23, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Qint8LApVU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Luis &Aacute;valos, R.I.P. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In some households, PBS viewing starts early &mdash; and no, that does not mean <em>Downtown Abbie<\/em>. Thank goodness stuff like &lsquo;The Electric Company&rsquo; &#038; &lsquo;Sesame Street&rsquo; were the only options for viewing back then, way before the Disneys and Nickelodeons came and took over and mushed-up the youngsters&rsquo; brains. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Luis was a neighbor to us here at the Home Office in the Hills overlooking the Studio City. On his morning walks through the local streets, he was always smiling and laughing &mdash; never saw him even have the hint of a scowl or a sneer. You&rsquo;d bump into him at the grocery and he&rsquo;d joke about the produce or some such. Just a happy-go-lucky fellow.<\/p>\n<p>We remember our first encounter here with him in the neighborhood. He kind of looked familiar, even though by this time he was grey-headed and sporting a goatee. We approached him carefully and asked him the all-important question: <em>&lsquo;Were you Luis from<\/em> The Electric Company<em>&rsquo;?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He smiled and said yes, and we were always on good terms from then on. We would drive by him as he walked and always extend the Brown\/Black Power salute out the driver-side window &mdash; and he would respond in kind.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your life, Sr. Luis &Aacute;valos. Lots of other people might have been better choices to go ahead of you, but thank you for your time here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/luis-avalos-dies-electric-company-cuban-actor-dead-67-146777\">http:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/luis-avalos-dies-electric-company-cuban-actor-dead-67-146777<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aqueduct<\/strong> 6, 9<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLLS&#038;Category_Code=  \">Pay-side<\/a><\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> 2, 7, <em>10<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Laurel<\/strong> 3, 5, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Oaklawn<\/strong> 9<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: None today, but stay up late tonight for the Australian Professional Lawn Tennis Competition men&rsquo;s semifinal between Rafa &lsquo;The Mallorcan Bull&rsquo; Nadal and Rogerr Federr, Sissie. By now, we hope you realize for whom we root. <em>Vamos!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: Lots of wintry weather back East, huh? Limited number of offerings, and we came close only once, in Tampa 5, courtesy of top-touted Majestic Man.<\/p>\n<p>Majestic Man, 12-1 on the morning line and with no assigned Fair Odds on the conventional V6 Betting Line, nonetheless received contender status via his qualifying 80-plus (84, exactly) number in the LifeLiner Speed Column. <\/p>\n<p>Majestic Man went off at 15&frac12;-1 in real life and actually led with a furlong to go. Too bad he could not last, succumbing to the 7-5 fave by 2&frac14; lengths. <\/p>\n<p>However, that winner was also OK on LifeLiner Speed Column, and the saver exacta, 7-5 fave over 15&frac12;-1 in a 10-horse field, paid $43.20. Ehh, a little stingy there. It happens. The 2-1 public second-choice completed the trizacta, OK on LifeLiner Speed Column, at $151.20. <\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\nLaurel 6f<\/p>\n<p><em>Rally<\/em><br \/>\nSanta Anita 6&frac12;f (T) (WMF 18)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Sifting through the wreckage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis &Aacute;valos, R.I.P.<\/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":[11,4,5,3],"tags":[8,13,7,6],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-stakes","category-wmf","tag-analysis","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-1vw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","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=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}