{"id":2341,"date":"2012-02-21T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2024-09-14T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T02:54:41","slug":"the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2012\/02\/21\/the-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m biased, but I love Nick Collison. He&#8217;s pushing ten years in the NBA and, while he was a great college player, I&#8217;m not sure anyone expected that kind of pro career for him. And I&#8217;ve always enjoyed his thoughtful take on things.<\/p>\n<p>He is blogging for GQ magazine on what life is like for a role-player in the NBA. His latest entry addresses finding your niche. It&#8217;s something every player who gets drafted should read, because not everyone turns into the next LeBron.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This is where a little perspective and being secure in yourself can go a long way. If you have perspective, you will realize that your job totally rules. You get paid a huge salary to play basketball. You will be part of the 1 percent. You will get your summers off. You will be encouraged to take naps most days.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m biased, but I love Nick Collison. He&#8217;s pushing ten years in the NBA and, while he was a great college player, I&#8217;m not sure anyone expected that kind of pro career for him. And I&#8217;ve always enjoyed his thoughtful take on things. He is blogging for GQ magazine on what life is like for a role-player in the NBA. His latest entry addresses finding your niche. It&#8217;s something every player who gets drafted should read, because not everyone turns into the next LeBron. This is where a little perspective and being secure in yourself can go a long way. If you have perspective, you will realize that your job totally rules. You get paid a huge salary to play basketball. You will be part of the 1 percent. You will get your summers off. You will be encouraged to take naps most days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,58],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basketball","tag-kansas-jayhawks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14734,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/14734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}