{"id":719,"date":"2021-05-04T10:07:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=719"},"modified":"2021-05-04T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:08:33","slug":"the-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/05\/04\/the-big-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/25wnba-suebird-1-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/25wnba-suebird-1-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/25wnba-suebird-1-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/25wnba-suebird-1-mediumSquareAt3X-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/25wnba-suebird-1-mediumSquareAt3X-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Big Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Imagine that you\u2019re<br \/>\nSue Bird or<br \/>\nMichael Jordan<br \/>\nand the Creator is<br \/>\nthe Coach<br \/>\nwho is beyond thrilled<br \/>\nto have recruited you<br \/>\nfor The Big Game<br \/>\nthat is your Life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But you looked<br \/>\nin the mirror<br \/>\nand for some reason<br \/>\nall you saw<br \/>\nreflected back to you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">was some shadow<br \/>\nof a wisp of<br \/>\nsomebody you<br \/>\ncan\u2019t quite make out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Get up off the end<br \/>\nof the bench<br \/>\nwhere you put yourself,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">go out, right now,<br \/>\nand get yourself<br \/>\na new mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Big Game Imagine that you\u2019re Sue Bird or Michael Jordan and the Creator is the Coach who is beyond thrilled to have recruited you for The Big Game that is your Life. But you looked in the mirror and for some reason all you saw reflected back to you was some shadow of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}