{"id":14902,"date":"2015-11-06T05:50:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14902"},"modified":"2015-11-06T05:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:50:44","slug":"it-makes-up-for-the-lucky-beard-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/it-makes-up-for-the-lucky-beard-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"It Makes Up For The Lucky Beard Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of this while reading art books on Sunday afternoons:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQBwgkSg42Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-andrew-luck-book-club-1446675595\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> redeems him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Andrew Luck looks like the best quarterback in the NFL\u2014as he often has in previous seasons\u2014the Indianapolis Colts are a playoff team. When Luck throws interceptions and takes sacks\u2014as he often has this season\u2014the Colts are mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible no group of players in the league is more dependent on one individual than the other 52 members of the Indianapolis roster.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve even come to depend on Luck when choosing what books to read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s always saying \u2018I read this great book,\u2019 \u201d said backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. \u201cHe\u2019s recommended books on concrete architecture, Rob Lowe\u2019s autobiography or \u2018Mountains Beyond Mountains,\u2019\u201d a 2003 account of a doctor working to fight tuberculosis.<br \/>\nMore on the NFL<\/p>\n<p>In the same way that Oprah Winfrey has become known for vaulting books she likes to popularity across the country, Luck can make his favorite reads become the talk of the Colts locker room. Some of the books he recommends are for inspiration, players say, if a teammate is going through a tough time. Others are passed on simply because Luck enjoyed leafing through them. \u201cHe\u2019s a voracious reader and he likes talking about it,\u201d said center Khaled Holmes, a beneficiary of Luck\u2019s penchant for recommending his favorite titles. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, he has to overcome the DirecTV commercial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of this while reading art books on Sunday afternoons: This article redeems him: When Andrew Luck looks like the best quarterback in the NFL\u2014as he often has in previous seasons\u2014the Indianapolis Colts are a playoff team. When Luck throws interceptions and takes sacks\u2014as he often has this season\u2014the Colts are mediocre. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14903,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions\/14903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}