{"id":2938,"date":"2008-07-20T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2008-07-20T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T16:14:02","slug":"big-joes-turtle-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2938","title":{"rendered":"Big Joe's Turtle Racing."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Friday night after the Blackhawks Convention<\/a> I took Dan’s advice and went to Big Joe’s<\/a> for my first ‘Turtle Race’. \u00a0If you’ve never been to Big Joe’s for turtle racing I highly\u00a0recommend\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

Basically for every beer you buy you get 3 tickets, at 9pm (or when the turtles are ready) they begin the first of 6 raffles for turtle jockeys. \u00a0If you’re ticket is pulled you get assigned one of the six turtles. \u00a0Once all six turtles have jockeys ‘Igor’ puts all the turtles under a platter at the center of the ‘track’, the crowd counts down and then the platter is removed and the turtles go for it. \u00a0The first turtle to outside of the track wins and the last turtle or the ‘slowest fucking turtle in the world’ wins as well. \u00a0The first turtle’s jockey gets a tshirt, the slowest a free drink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I never got to race because some one<\/a> stole my winning ticket but Lauren had a winning turtle and did get a free tshirt. \u00a0I’m pretty sure Dan just made a ton of money on side bets.<\/p>\n

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*Side Note: \u00a0More Turtle Racing photographs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday night after the Blackhawks Convention I took Dan’s advice and went to Big Joe’s for my first ‘Turtle Race’. \u00a0If you’ve never been to Big Joe’s for turtle racing I highly\u00a0recommend\u00a0it. Basically for every beer you buy you get 3 tickets, at 9pm (or when the turtles are ready) they begin the first of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[52,87,382],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-man","category-sports","tag-big-joes","tag-chicago","tag-turtle-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-Lo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}