{"id":551,"date":"2008-10-06T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/10\/06\/eric-musselmans-basketball-notebook-there-are-times-when-we-have-to-stand-alone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:54:28","slug":"eric-musselmans-basketball-notebook-there-are-times-when-we-have-to-stand-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/eric-musselmans-basketball-notebook-there-are-times-when-we-have-to-stand-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Musselman&#039;s Basketball Notebook: There are times when we have to stand alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people need permission to act! But that is something no one can give you, no one but yourself!<br \/>\nGive yourself permission to dream.<br \/>\nGive yourself permission to act.<br \/>\nGive yourself permission to fail.<br \/>\nGive yourself permission to dream again.<br \/>\nQueen Latifa from NYTimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/05\/magazine\/05latifah-t.html?_r=1&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink&amp;oref=slogin\">here<\/a> ht to eric musselman&#8217;s blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn\u2019t do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that\u2019s what it requires. So the times I had to stand alone, I got it. I understood where I was coming from, so hopefully, everybody else would get it eventually.\u201d<br \/>\nPosted by Eric Musselman at 8:13 AM<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/emuss.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/there-are-times-when-we-have-to-stand.html\">Eric Musselman&#8217;s Basketball Notebook: There are times when we have to stand alone<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people need permission to act! But that is something no one can give you, no one but yourself! Give yourself permission to dream. Give yourself permission to act. Give yourself permission to fail. Give yourself permission to dream again. Queen Latifa from NYTimes here ht to eric musselman&#8217;s blog: \u201cI know people who are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/eric-musselmans-basketball-notebook-there-are-times-when-we-have-to-stand-alone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eric Musselman&#039;s Basketball Notebook: There are times when we have to stand alone&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}