{"id":374,"date":"2005-05-29T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=374"},"modified":"2005-05-29T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2005-05-29T16:54:08","slug":"race-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Race Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the age of five, I have missed exactly zero Indy 500&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The remembrance of the Veterans; the remembrance of those lying in Flanders Fields, the men on the beach at Iwo Jima whose bodies were never found.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of summer, the greatest spectacle in auto racing; the only sporting event I ever watch.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Nabors flys in from his Honolulu home to sing My State&#8217;s Anthem. <\/p>\n<p>Steaks are marinating, beer is chilled, garlic roasting; I&#8217;ve been taking pulls on a bottle of Cockburns ruby port, and it is so great to be alive I cannot describe it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the age of five, I have missed exactly zero Indy 500&#8217;s. The remembrance of the Veterans; the remembrance of those lying in Flanders Fields, the men on the beach at Iwo Jima whose bodies were never found. The beginning of summer, the greatest spectacle in auto racing; the only sporting event I ever watch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}