We spent a day at the races.<\/p>\n
Well, ok not a whole day, just a few hours.\u00a0 We didn’t go to bet, though Meghan did bet $3 and is now up by $3.\u00a0 We went to watch the horses.<\/p>\n
Our destination was Suffolk Downs<\/a>.\u00a0 It is an eighty-something year old horse-racing track just outside Boston.\u00a0 Its days are numbered<\/a> but they’re still holding a few races per year in the meantime.<\/p>\n Our Alpha child loves horses.\u00a0 She’s loved them since the first grade, when she abruptly gave up a love affair with dinosaurs to fall madly in love with horses instead.\u00a0 When I found out about the races, I realized I had an opportunity to make one very happy child.<\/p>\n We bought a program as soon as we arrived and set Alpha loose.\u00a0 She immediately headed over to the paddock, started matching the horses to the program, and figured out pretty much everything on her own.\u00a0 She picked her favorites and apparently has a good eye because, of the two she picked, one was a winner and the other placed at #2.<\/p>\n We stayed for three races before heading back home.\u00a0 The siren song of chores beckoned us home, plus Beta child was in a mood, one that didn’t include horses or racing.\u00a0 There’s another race weekend this year, and I think Alpha and I will attend again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We spent a day at the races. Well, ok not a whole day, just a few hours.\u00a0 We didn’t go to bet, though Meghan did bet $3 and is now up by $3.\u00a0 We went to watch the horses. Our destination was Suffolk Downs.\u00a0 It is an eighty-something year old horse-racing track just outside Boston.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Suffolk Downs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[107,370,369],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-alpha","tag-horses","tag-suffolk-downs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170806-Crossing-the-Finish-Line.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-qB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}