{"id":1307,"date":"2019-01-24T01:54:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2019-01-24T01:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:54:59","slug":"pinning-the-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Pinning the Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Imagine getting old enough to teach a grandson dice games.<\/div>\n<div>Never happen.<\/div>\n<div>There will be holograms programmable on your home court.<\/div>\n<div>Or headset participation: you are guarding Gary Payton,<\/div>\n<div>hooking over Alcindor. Athletes will become prototypes.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Arenas will be built in condo walls.<\/div>\n<div>One day someone will say Jordan wasn&#8217;t real. We&#8217;ll lose the feel.<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m so glad to have made the transition from black and white to color<\/div>\n<div>to 3D quadrophonic and back to balsa.<\/div>\n<div>The flight of the crumbled free.<\/div>\n<div>Here we are amidst many armies, listening to steel guitars.<\/div>\n<div>What honor has been bestowed upon us<\/div>\n<div>with the quick disintegration of time,<\/div>\n<div>watching beauty explode in its daily ministry, light to dark, red to blue.<\/div>\n<div>There is no telling what to do. Just look to the woods.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine getting old enough to teach a grandson dice games. Never happen. There will be holograms programmable on your home court. Or headset participation: you are guarding Gary Payton, hooking over Alcindor. Athletes will become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1307\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}