{"id":5998,"date":"2012-05-04T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2012-05-04T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:20:00","slug":"it-is-a-blockbuster-of-a-story-a-sweeping-saga-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5998","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is a blockbuster of a story, a sweeping saga of greed, fraud, and almost unimaginable cruelty that could have been lifted straight from a best-selling Dick Francis horse-racing novel. The settings range from the raucous pageantry of the Kentucky Derby to the hushed, baronial offices of Lloyd&#8217;s of London in England, and even the minor characters\u2014from an uneducated, chain-smoking Kentucky farmhand tormented by a secret to a corrupt Texas banker living in luxury at Houston&#8217;s Four Seasons Hotel\u2014seem right out of central casting. &#8220;This story has got blood and money, scandal and intrigue, and one hell of a beautiful horse,&#8221; says Allen Goodling of Houston, one of the many lawyers who became involved in the case. &#8220;What more does anybody want?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20021213191905\/www.texasmonthly.com\/mag\/issues\/2001-06-01\/feature4.php\">Texas Monthly June 2001: The Killing of Alydar<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a blockbuster of a story, a sweeping saga of greed, fraud, and almost unimaginable cruelty that could have been lifted straight from a best-selling Dick Francis horse-racing novel. The settings range from the raucous pageantry of the Kentucky Derby to the hushed, baronial offices of Lloyd&#8217;s of London in England, and even the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5998\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}