{"id":270,"date":"2008-05-05T05:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/270"},"modified":"2008-05-05T05:39:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T10:39:54","slug":"odd-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/270","title":{"rendered":"Odd Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an odd sense of humor, bordering on the macabre.  OK, it&#8217;s pretty much an open border and I visit there often, because I don&#8217;t need a passport.<\/p>\n<p>I read the results of the Kentucky Derby and the unfortunate news of Eight Belles.  But because I don&#8217;t really follow horse racing much and when I hear about it always seems to be about an injury to a horse and how you deal with that, what flashed through my mind (along with Gary Larson&#8217;s cartoon about veterinary medicine, where the chapter on horse ailments was so easy) was along the lines of<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 3-1 favorite, Big Brown, won the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday in commanding fashion, paying $6.80.  Eight Belles finished second and paid $10.60, and later buckled, collapsed and was euthanized, which went off at 26-1 and paid $52.50.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an odd sense of humor, bordering on the macabre. OK, it&#8217;s pretty much an open border and I visit there often, because I don&#8217;t need a passport. I read the results of the Kentucky Derby and the unfortunate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}