{"id":33824,"date":"2021-05-11T14:24:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=33824"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:04:54","slug":"go-right-to-the-source-and-ask-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/11\/go-right-to-the-source-and-ask-the-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Go right to the source and ask the horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We should probably not allow the racing of 2 year old horses (though see comments below). I think this is only done in the US and a couple of other countries.  It is not allowed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>We may need to admit that horse-racing has become corrupt.  Well, certain areas of horse racing were always corrupt.  Don&#8217;t ask me how I know, but I think the statute of limitations is up on that anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Cancel Culture is ruining everything!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xZwtvH2uBxY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should cancel the Kentucky Derby as it exists today. Shut it down, tweak the rules, clean the process up, and restart in a few years.  Maybe be nicer to the horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should probably not allow the racing of 2 year old horses (though see comments below). I think this is only done in the US and a couple of other countries. It is not allowed elsewhere. We may need to admit that horse-racing has become corrupt. Well, certain areas of horse racing were always corrupt. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/11\/go-right-to-the-source-and-ask-the-horse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go right to the source and ask the horse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5039],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MrEdPlayingChess.png?fit=208%2C277&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8Ny","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33835,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions\/33835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}