{"id":1852,"date":"2013-05-23T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2013-05-23T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:05:49","slug":"at-the-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"At the Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Crown of Renewal<\/em>, by a nose, despite all the obstacles in its path as reported in breathless gasps by Crown&#8217;s disheveled jockey:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made it.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how, but <em>Crown<\/em> is a remarkable horse, a great horse, and all the way down the stretch he was on the bit and driving hard. \u00a0 Never stopped. \u00a0 All that earlier trouble was interference. \u00a0 Toxicity made the last serious challenge, but I grabbed <em>Crown<\/em>&#8216;s mane and hung on.\u00a0 What a ride!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Crown<\/em> was pouring it on, all the way. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the tradition of the Great Book Handicap,\u00a0 <em>Crown<\/em> will be given a fast going over with brush and tail-comb before appearing in the winner&#8217;s circle ( known by insiders at this track as &#8220;The Editor&#8217;s Inbox&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>(Going to wander off and have ice cream now, before final spell-check\/chapter heading check, all that nitpicky stuff.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown of Renewal, by a nose, despite all the obstacles in its path as reported in breathless gasps by Crown&#8217;s disheveled jockey:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,92,5],"tags":[20,107],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crown-of-renewal","category-good-news","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}