{"id":36851,"date":"2012-07-18T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36851"},"modified":"2012-07-19T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:22:52","slug":"36851","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36851","title":{"rendered":"Linsanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/19\/sports\/basketball\/vendors-and-fans-begin-switch-to-lins-new-team.html?_r=1&#038;smid=fb-share\">J-Lin<\/a> is gone.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t like basketball but would watch if Jeromy Lin plays. I don&#8217;t like to admit there are racists because it makes me feel small. Perhaps certain race think they own the game, which to a point it&#8217;s true&#8230;but they don&#8217;t like to see an educated kid who doesn&#8217;t have an abusive childhood, etc to outshine or what? Lin&#8217;s fans are not only Asians. Scrutinize his 3 yr 25 mil is ridiculous when so many other underperformers having more ridiculous contracts. <\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if few mates on the team pressed the owner &#8230; ?? In any case, I want to add: I watch Lin not because he&#8217;s Chinese. I&#8217;d watch even he&#8217;s purple or orange. I watched because he&#8217;s gracious and charismatic, and his academic pedigree doesn&#8217;t hurt either. The fact he excited us, he lift the big apple, gave us hope .. Patrick Ewing got paid handsomely but watching him is like watching a coal fueled locomotive in the bullet train era. And forget not, he brought us no ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J-Lin is gone. I don&#8217;t like basketball but would watch if Jeromy Lin plays. I don&#8217;t like to admit there are racists because it makes me feel small. Perhaps certain race think they own the game, which to a point it&#8217;s true&#8230;but they don&#8217;t like to see an educated kid who doesn&#8217;t have an abusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36851","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=36851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}