{"id":12,"date":"2005-06-12T22:27:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T02:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/2005\/06\/12\/derby-day\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:16:28","slug":"derby-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/2005\/06\/12\/derby-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis happened so long ago now, that I’m afraid if I don’t put these
\nphotos up now, I never will.  In celebration of the Kentucky
\nDerby, BCI holds its own Derby Day each spring.  It is a chance to
\nsee what everyone on the island looks like dressed in nice clothing,
\nand not covered in mud.<\/span><\/p>\n


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\nThe day started with a delicious crepe and mimosa breakfast, followed by  water volleyball in Fairchild cove.<\/span><\/p>\n


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\nAlthough, there was more drinking and floating than playing:<\/span><\/p>\n


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\nDue to the lack of thoroughbred horses on the island, and the
\ndifficulties of catching enough ocelots to have a competitive field, we
\nrace Bufo marinus, the infamous cane toad.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Click here to see the contestants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Toadally<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


\nAfter everyone has selected their toad<\/span><\/p>\n


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\nand gotten themselves a mint julip or a martini and a cigar<\/span><\/p>\n


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\nthe racing starts:<\/span><\/p>\n


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Click here to see the final heat<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n
\n
\nTo finish the evening, there was a BBQ and a party at the Old Dining Hall.  <\/span><\/p>\n


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It was a really fun day, except
\nprobably for the toads.  However, they don’t seem to have been
\ndone any permanent damage, since there are just as many hanging around
\nmy dorm now as there were before Derby Day!<\/p>\n

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This happened so long ago now, that I’m afraid if I don’t put these photos up now, I never will.  In celebration of the Kentucky Derby, BCI holds its own Derby Day each spring.  It is a chance to see what everyone on the island looks like dressed in nice clothing, and not covered in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crofootstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}