{"id":135,"date":"2006-02-27T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-02-27T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T23:59:11","slug":"some-prep-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2006\/02\/27\/some-prep-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Prep with $"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed this morning upon seeing the local news headlines overnight.  Seems a crabby basketball player that ONLY makes $11 million a year after foregoing college because he couldn&#8217;t possibly pass it, got into trouble for throwing\/tossing a basketball into the stands and hitting a fan.  <\/p>\n<p>  It was even more impressive to see the great bit of drama acted out by said fan, all the way from his seat to the ambulance gurney for &#8216;head trama&#8217;.  I wonder when, not if, he will reprise his role in a lawsuit towards said NBA player.  Should be happening shortly.<\/p>\n<p>  And already pundits are saying the player was under the duress of a piss-poor season with a dismal team that he has poured his heart and soul into.  Give me a break, for that much money anyone would show up and attempt to make nice as well.<\/p>\n<p>  Said player was already under suspicion when upon his grand entrance into the league in his rookie season in a game at the Target Center, he ungratefully avoided his young fans as he sauntered to the court he would inhabit for at least the next decade.  That&#8217;s true ignorance of the hand that feeds him.  <\/p>\n<p>  So without great reservation, I think he deserves what he is due.  Payback is a bitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed this morning upon seeing the local news headlines overnight. Seems a crabby basketball player that ONLY makes $11 million a year after foregoing college because he couldn&#8217;t possibly pass it, got into trouble for throwing\/tossing a basketball into the stands and hitting a fan. It was even more impressive to see the great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}