{"id":5111,"date":"2012-02-14T19:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2012-02-14T19:52:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:52:43","slug":"repostjeremy-lin-inspires-linsanity-why-this-is-both-thrilling-and-worrisome-slate-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/repostjeremy-lin-inspires-linsanity-why-this-is-both-thrilling-and-worrisome-slate-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Jeremy Lin inspires \u201cLinsanity\u201d: Why this is both thrilling and worrisome. &#8211; Slate Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For the first time in a week, I didn\u2019t wish for Lin to be anything other than what he was\u2014an utterly unique and galvanizing basketball force. I raised my arms in victory with everyone else in the packed bar and tried in vain to hold back a wide, beery smile. I don\u2019t even like the Knicks.<br \/>\nHow could anyone begrudge Lin his naked joy, his infectious effort? How could you not appreciate his poise in the face of this scrutiny, these expectations, the whole mass of us clawing at him across two continents? How could I ask any more from this 23-year-old kid? He had transported me back to that first game I ever watched him play, before I knew who he was or what he believed. I saw only a basketball player capable of dragging a bunch of scrubs\u00a0to new heights, a point guard, a leader\u2014one who happened to look just a little bit like me.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/sports\/sports_nut\/2012\/02\/jeremy_lin_inspires_linsanity_why_this_is_both_thrilling_and_worrisome_.2.html\">Jeremy Lin inspires \u201cLinsanity\u201d: Why this is both thrilling and worrisome. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in a week, I didn\u2019t wish for Lin to be anything other than what he was\u2014an utterly unique and galvanizing basketball force. I raised my arms in victory with everyone else in the packed bar and tried in vain to hold back a wide, beery smile. I don\u2019t even like the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/repostjeremy-lin-inspires-linsanity-why-this-is-both-thrilling-and-worrisome-slate-magazine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Jeremy Lin inspires \u201cLinsanity\u201d: Why this is both thrilling and worrisome. &#8211; Slate Magazine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[79,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}