{"id":1604,"date":"2008-07-23T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/arlington-park-in-arlington-heights-il\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T01:22:00","slug":"arlington-park-in-arlington-heights-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/arlington-park-in-arlington-heights-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over two months ago, I wondered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/2008\/05\/horse-racing-at-arlington-park.html\">why I never thought of watching<\/a> live horse racing. Today, I finally decided to drive to Arlington Park to watch the races during my lunch (two) hour(s).<\/p>\n<p>The drive to the track was 15 minutes from the office. Since only 8 races were on the program today, I could watch 4-5 races and still be back at the office in a reasonable amount of time (plus with my laptop and Arlington Park\u2019s wireless network I could work during the 30 minute downtime between each race).<\/p>\n<p>Admission to Arlington Park is $7. They have a food court with the normal variety of food to select from \u2013 tacos, hamburgers and pizza. However, it tastes better than regular ballpark food.<\/p>\n<p>In the second race I won an exacta box as Papa won and Inner Light placed. Neither my luck nor the risk of my bets was nearly as good for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two months ago, I wondered why I never thought of watching live horse racing. Today, I finally decided to drive to Arlington Park to watch the races during my lunch (two) hour(s).<br \/>\nThe drive to the track was 15 minutes from the office. Since only 8 races were on the program today, I could watch 4-5 races and still be back at the office in a reasonable amount of time (plus with my laptop and Arlington Park\u2019s wireless network I could work during the 30 minute downtime between each race).<br \/>\nAdmission &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}