{"id":21484,"date":"2017-05-05T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21484"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:26:19","slug":"you-go-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21484","title":{"rendered":"You go, Patch!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Under normal circumstances, I wouldn&#8217;t give a hoot about the Kentucky Derby, a horse race that occurs each May in Louisville, Ky.<\/p>\n<p>This year, though, is different.<\/p>\n<p>A thoroughbred named Patch is going to take his place Saturday in the starting gate. I want Patch to win the race.<\/p>\n<p>Why? The beast has just one eye.<\/p>\n<p>I get excited about horse racing only when the same horse wins the first two legs of the Triple Crown &#8212; the Derby and the Preakness. My favorite horse races of all time were the 1973 and 2015 Belmont Stakes, the final Triple Crown race.<\/p>\n<p>In1973, Secretariat won the Triple Crown by damn near lapping the field at the Belmont. In 2015, American Pharoah broke a 37-year Triple Crown drought by leading from wire to wire in a stunning race.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;m hoping to watch the Kentucky Derby and am going to cheer for Patch to show up those other horses. He&#8217;s about a 30-to-1 underdog. Hey, horses have come from farther down on the odds chart to win.<\/p>\n<p>Go for it, Patch!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under normal circumstances, I wouldn&#8217;t give a hoot about the Kentucky Derby, a horse race that occurs each May in Louisville, Ky. This year, though, is different. A thoroughbred named Patch is going to take his place Saturday in the starting gate. I want Patch to win the race. Why? The beast has just one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You go, Patch!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[364,2663,4172],"class_list":["post-21484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-american-pharoah","tag-kentucky-derby","tag-secretariat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21485,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions\/21485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}