{"id":3108,"date":"2008-12-21T21:11:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T01:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2011-12-25T00:58:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:58:51","slug":"introspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=3108","title":{"rendered":"Introspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">When one reflects too much, it makes him or her a loser. But when one has no introspective, weeeellll, I think it&#8217;s a lose .. too. So we have to find that middle ground.<\/p>\n<p>Year end is always a good time to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Tiki Barber interviewed Giants&#8217; running back #27 Brandon Jacobs who&#8217;s agile and can run despite his little size -Height: 6-4 Weight: 264; born: 7\/6\/1982 Houma , LA .. who&#8217;s longing for the national recognition or the stardom. The interview showed clips the two played together.<br \/>\nBran-Done ..<br \/>\nAt the end, Tiki said, he has one more question.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why did you go to Superbowl without me?&#8221;<br \/>\n..<br \/>\n&#8220;Can I have the ring?&#8221; Tiki joked.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ll lend it to you.&#8221; The running back teased back.<\/p>\n<p>I felt sad for Tiki. I like him a lot but obviously he wasn&#8217;t right for the Giants.  In reality, the little Giants might not win the Superbowl had he not left. It&#8217;s so trite to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_swan_theory\">life is unpredictable<\/a>, but it&#8217;s true. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable\/dp\/1400063515\">The Black Swan<\/a> made fun of another book that I enjoyed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without\/dp\/0316010669\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229907893&amp;sr=1-1\">Blink<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one reflects too much, it makes him or her a loser. But when one has no introspective, weeeellll, I think it&#8217;s a lose .. too. So we have to find that middle ground. Year end is always a good time to do so. Tiki Barber interviewed Giants&#8217; running back #27 Brandon Jacobs who&#8217;s agile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}