{"id":36725,"date":"2015-05-17T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=36725"},"modified":"2015-05-14T18:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:09:35","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-why-isnt-it-the-best-hands-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-why-isnt-it-the-best-hands-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why isn\u2019t it the best, &#8220;hands up?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/horse-racing-game?source=blog_UK150517\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-36726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/23563_HorseRacingGame.jpg\" alt=\"Horse Racing Game | UncommonGoods\" width=\"545\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When someone tells you your joke was the funniest, your hair was the prettiest, your cooking was the tastiest (we\u2019re very popular)\u2014they usually announce your win, \u201chands down.\u201d This saying originates at the racetrack, the earliest examples being found in 19th century sporting papers. If a jockey and his horse were winning by a lot, the jockey would often be able to cross the finish line with the reigns dropped and his hands down. What was at first used in a literal way soon became a metaphor for winning with ease\u2014an 1853 newspaper described a horse\u2019s win as \u201cshe won with the most perfect ease imaginable, little Sherwood going past the post \u2018hands down.\u2019\u201d Now hands up if you think that\u2019s neat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/horse-racing-game?source=blog_UK150517\" target=\"_blank\">Horse Racing Game, $75<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hint: We&#8217;re not horsing around with this  fact!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":36727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36730,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36725\/revisions\/36730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}