{"id":9701,"date":"2012-02-29T20:21:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2012\/02\/horse-racing-loses-one-of-our-own-davy-jones-1945---2012.html"},"modified":"2012-02-29T20:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:21:04","slug":"horse-racing-loses-one-of-our-own-davy-jones-1945-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2012\/02\/horse-racing-loses-one-of-our-own-davy-jones-1945-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Racing Loses One of Our Own: Davy Jones, 1945 – 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"
You have to understand that I did not expect my world to be turned upside-down today. I hunkered down to work in my home office, while outside a snowstorm bore down on me. I was quite fine. Drinking coffee, gathering information on the web, I was utterly loving the silence that a snowstorm forces on a community. Streets become quiet. Cars hush themselves. Even scofflaws come out in the daytime to open their mouths and catch the six-pointed, icy stars on their tongues.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s the least we can do for one of our own, who also happened–in his spare time, when he wasn’t lovin’ up on a horse–to be a rock star. Davy Jones, Rest in God’s arms, comrade.<\/p><\/div>\n You have to understand that I did not expect my world to be turned upside-down today. I hunkered down to work in my home office, while outside a snowstorm bore down on me. I was quite fine. Drinking coffee, gathering…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":8165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\nDavy Jones.<\/b> I read those words, and uttered, “Oh, no!” I looked around, as if someone in the building could deny this horrible rumor for me. My cat was uncharacteristically mute. I rushed to the computer, and went looking for more information. It wasn’t hard to find–the Internet was abuzz. Facebook had become Davy Jones Central.<\/p>\n