{"id":16537,"date":"2017-05-10T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16537"},"modified":"2017-05-10T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:05:16","slug":"nice-try-now-read-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/nice-try-now-read-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Try; Now Read A Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sportswriter <a href=\"http:\/\/packerswire.usatoday.com\/2017\/05\/09\/packers-rb-group-is-a-mystery-wrapped-in-inexperience-and-intrigue\/\" target=\"_new\">swings and misses on a metaphor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Packers\u2019 running back group is packed to the brim with distinct inexperience, unmistakable intrigue and alluring potential \u2013 creating a position with more mystery than most Poe novels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most Poe novels?  You can count the novels that Edgar Allan Poe completed on one finger:  <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket\" target=\"_new\">The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t anyone here play this game?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a quote from a sports figure, he explained to the sports journalists.<\/p>\n<p>(Spoiler alert: I&#8217;m reading Poe now, so I&#8217;m likely to re-read that novel again in the coming weeks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sportswriter swings and misses on a metaphor: The Packers\u2019 running back group is packed to the brim with distinct inexperience, unmistakable intrigue and alluring potential \u2013 creating a position with more mystery than most Poe novels. Most Poe novels? You can count the novels that Edgar Allan Poe completed on one finger: The Narrative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537","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=16537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16539,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions\/16539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}