{"id":4199,"date":"2008-05-03T20:23:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/03\/bet-on-the-filly\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:28:33","slug":"bet-on-the-filly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/03\/bet-on-the-filly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bet on the Filly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5574,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/2008\\\/05\\\/bet_on_the_filly&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251106235559\\\/https:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/2008\\\/05\\\/bet_on_the_filly&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:07:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 23:20:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:11:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:11:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5575,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.abcnews.com\\\/politicalradar\\\/2008\\\/05\\\/clinton-backs-g.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5576,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.enjoytheenjoyment.com\\\/2008\\\/05\\\/always-bet-on-filly.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5577,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.courier-journal.com\\\/apps\\\/pbcs.dll\\\/article?AID=\\\/20080503\\\/SPORTS08\\\/80503027\\\/1002\\\/SPORTS&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.courier-journal.com\\\/apps\\\/pbcs.dll\\\/article?AID=\\\/20080503\\\/SPORTS08\\\/80503027\\\/1002\\\/SPORTS&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is neither pro-Obama nor anti-Clinton in my mind &#8212; I haven&#8217;t officially taken a stance yet, though unofficially I&#8217;m throwing my vote in with Cthulhu (why settle for the <em>lesser<\/em> of two evils, after all?) &#8212; I just think it&#8217;s really funny. It&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/05\/bet_on_the_filly\" title=\"Slog: Bet on the Filly?\">ganked in full from the Slog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Uh oh. Earlier this week Hillary Clinton instructed supporters to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/05\/clinton-backs-g.html\" title=\"Political Radar: Clinton Backs Girl Horse in Kentucky Derby\">bet on the filly<\/a> in the Kentucky Derby. In other words: Bet on Eight Belles, the only female in the horse race (and, Clinton obviously hoped, a potentially promising metaphor\/omen for herself and her chances of winning the Democratic nomination).<\/p>\n<p>  Well, as local sports fanatic Seth Kolloen just pointed out via email (and on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enjoytheenjoyment.com\/2008\/05\/always-bet-on-filly.html\" title=\"Enjoy the Enjoyment: Always Bet on the Filly?\">blog<\/a>), it didn\u2019t go so well for the filly today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    In a development that you couldn\u2019t even make up, Eight Belles finished second, but broke both her ankles during the race, collapsed at the end, and was immediately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080503\/SPORTS08\/80503027\/1002\/SPORTS\" title=\"Courier-Journal: Second place Eight Belles euthanized after breaking both front legs\">euthanized on the track<\/a>.\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Oh &#8212; while it shouldn&#8217;t need to be clarified, just to cover my bases with the terminally dense: no, the injury and death of the horse is not funny. The &#8220;seemed like a good idea at the time&#8221; and subsequently horrifically botched political analogy is hilarious.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is neither pro-Obama nor anti-Clinton in my mind &#8212; I haven&#8217;t officially taken a stance yet, though unofficially I&#8217;m throwing my vote in with Cthulhu (why settle for the _lesser_ of two evils, after all?) &#8212; I just think it&#8217;s really funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[379,1584,6,14],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}