{"id":41111,"date":"2011-05-30T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T06:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12086"},"modified":"2011-05-30T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T06:08:30","slug":"hope-before-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/30\/hope-before-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope before the fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is pretty irrational to bet on the Mavericks against the Heat in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/05\/31\/us-nba-finals-wade-idUSTRE74U0GQ20110531\">NBA Finals<\/a>. And since my Celtics lost I haven&#8217;t been following what&#8217;s going on closely, but I hope Jason Kidd gets his ring. He&#8217;s had some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Kidd#NBA_records\">ups<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Kidd#Personal_life\">downs<\/a>, but I do remember being amazed by him when he was a freshman at Cal (though watching tape of Magic it was clear that he had the same panache when it came to assists):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/XnFqvYeXuRs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is pretty irrational to bet on the Mavericks against the Heat in the NBA Finals. And since my Celtics lost I haven&#8217;t been following what&#8217;s going on closely, but I hope Jason Kidd gets his ring. He&#8217;s had some ups and downs, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1397,1398,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jason-kidd","category-nba","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41121,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111\/revisions\/41121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}