{"id":158,"date":"2006-03-15T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2006-05-01T04:19:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T18:19:06","slug":"2006-trot-guide-update-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"2006 Trot Guide Update #2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7318\/426\/1600\/trot1.2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7318\/426\/200\/trot1.1.jpg\" \/><\/a>&#8220;There was a famous jockey that never lost a race. When asked how he achieved this, he replied, &#8216;I whisper in the horse&#8217;s ear: Roses are red, violets are blue. Horses that lose are made into glue.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In which case, the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/whats-up-with-socialist-alliance.html\">Socialist Alliance<\/a> deserves to be taken off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mhorseglue.html\">the knackery<\/a>. Well, that&#8217;s what SA candidate John Tattersall&#8217;s performance in the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/boo-hoo-suebdoo2.html\">Victoria Park by-election<\/a> would suggest. Tatttersall got just 127 votes or 0.81% of the total. Given the DSP&#8217;s public enthusiasm for the SA, I half-expect to read an article in the Green Left Weakly pointing out the good news: Tattersall beat &#8220;van Lieshout&#8221; (41 votes or 0.26%) and &#8220;Ward&#8221; (84 votes or 0.54%). Or perhaps they&#8217;d rather pass over in silence election results of which they&#8217;d rather not speak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There was a famous jockey that never lost a race. When asked how he achieved this, he replied, &#8216;I whisper in the horse&#8217;s ear: Roses are red, violets are blue. Horses that lose are made into glue.&#8217;&#8221; In which case, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trot-guide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}