{"id":115453,"date":"2026-05-02T18:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/the-head-turning-hats-of-the-2026-kentucky-derby\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:30:22","slug":"the-head-turning-hats-of-the-2026-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/the-head-turning-hats-of-the-2026-kentucky-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"The Head-Turning Hats of the 2026 Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Greetings? The Kentucky Derby has a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Hours before America&#8217;s most famous horse race began in Louisville, spectators joined in the event&#8217;s other time-honored tradition (besides day drinking): parading around Churchill Downs in outrageous costumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">But it wasn&#8217;t just the hats \u2013 fascinators, fedoras, bowlers, sailors and feathers (so many feathers) \u2013 that caught the eye. There were also other horse-drawn accessories: purses, embroidery, jackets and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">For many, entertainment was the name of the game \u2013 it seemed to be less about what you&#8217;re wearing and more about how big it is.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>You wore it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">A wild ride as always.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings? The Kentucky Derby has a few. Hours before America&#8217;s most famous horse race began in Louisville, spectators joined in the event&#8217;s other time-honored tradition (besides day drinking): parading around Churchill Downs in outrageous costumes. But it wasn&#8217;t just the hats \u2013 fascinators, fedoras, bowlers, sailors and feathers (so many feathers) \u2013 that caught the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[3139,27804,27803,7950],"class_list":{"0":"post-115453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-derby","9":"tag-hats","10":"tag-headturning","11":"tag-kentucky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115455,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115453\/revisions\/115455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}