{"id":506,"date":"2005-05-07T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=506"},"modified":"2005-05-07T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T23:12:07","slug":"closing-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/closing-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/2002\/images\/derby_history\/derby_charts\/years\/1920.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Jones\" align=left \/><br \/>\nSo I take a break from grading to drop by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/\">Kentucky Derby<\/a> party. Play a little croquet. Draw a horse name to make it interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/2005\/derby_coverage\/derby_entrants\/closing_argument\/\">&#8220;Closing Argument&#8221;<\/a> Odds? 70 &#8211; 1 and up to 71 by the time the nags get put in the gates. But then &#8212; I&#8217;ll be damned &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/2005\/\">Closing Argument places!<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Note:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/2002\/derby_history\/derby_charts\/years\/1920.html\">Paul Jones was the Derby winner in 1920.<\/a> I&#8217;ve been told we resemble each other when seen from the rear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I take a break from grading to drop by a Kentucky Derby party. Play a little croquet. Draw a horse name to make it interesting. &#8220;Closing Argument&#8221; Odds? 70 &#8211; 1 and up to 71 by the time the nags get put in the gates. But then &#8212; I&#8217;ll be damned &#8212; Closing Argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}