{"id":6040,"date":"2014-10-16T17:25:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2014-10-16T17:25:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T09:25:43","slug":"noahs-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/16\/noahs-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah\u2019s Spark \u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When Donovan recognized this trait in Noah, he understood that he could coach the player hard\u00a0\u2014 that Noah\u2019s desire and toughness wouldn\u2019t falter if Donovan pushed him. Early in Noah\u2019s sophomore season, Donovan noticed that his big man lacked his normal energy. Besides his class and practice schedule, Noah had been accepting invitations to talk at elementary schools and do volunteer work at hospitals, acts of generosity that were tiring him out. \u201cYou\u2019re in awful shape because you won\u2019t take care of yourself,\u201d Donovan told Noah in front of the team. \u201cYou\u2019re not in the condition you were to start the season. All you\u2019re doing is running yourself down, and now you\u2019re not even in shape to play like you need to play.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/joakim-noah-chicago-bulls-nba-florida-gators-ncaa-championship-derrick-rose\/\">Noah\u2019s Spark \u00ab<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Donovan recognized this trait in Noah, he understood that he could coach the player hard\u00a0\u2014 that Noah\u2019s desire and toughness wouldn\u2019t falter if Donovan pushed him. Early in Noah\u2019s sophomore season, Donovan noticed that his big man lacked his normal energy. Besides his class and practice schedule, Noah had been accepting invitations to talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/16\/noahs-spark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noah\u2019s Spark \u00ab&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","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=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}