{"id":6555,"date":"2016-05-05T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/05\/05\/ahead-of-derby-day-kentucky-residents-gather-early-to-beat-tourists\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:31:35","slug":"ahead-of-derby-day-kentucky-residents-gather-early-to-beat-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/ahead-of-derby-day-kentucky-residents-gather-early-to-beat-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead Of Derby Day, Kentucky Residents Gather Early To Beat Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/05\/476927395\/ahead-of-derby-day-kentucky-residents-gather-early-to-beat-tourists?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Rick Howlett<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>For generations, the day before the Kentucky Derby was unofficially considered &#8220;Louisville&#8217;s Day at the Races,&#8221; when locals could enjoy Churchill Downs without the huge Derby crowds, high admission prices and general madness. But over the past few years, &#8220;Oaks Day&#8221; has become popular among out-of-towners who come in early and make a whole weekend of it. Now, locals gather on the Thursday before the Derby.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/05\/476927395\/ahead-of-derby-day-kentucky-residents-gather-early-to-beat-tourists?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ahead Of Derby Day, Kentucky Residents Gather Early To Beat Tourists\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/05\/476927395\/ahead-of-derby-day-kentucky-residents-gather-early-to-beat-tourists?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For generations, the day before the Kentucky Derby was unofficially considered &#8220;Louisville&#8217;s Day at the Races,&#8221; when locals could enjoy Churchill Downs without the huge Derby crowds, high admission prices and general madness. But over the past few years, &#8220;Oaks Day&#8221; has become popular among out-of-towners who come in early and make a whole weekend of it. Now, locals gather on the Thursday before the Derby.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}