{"id":26136,"date":"2020-05-04T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26136"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:34:32","slug":"no-quarter-at-nogglestead-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/no-quarter-at-nogglestead-either\/","title":{"rendered":"No Quarter at Nogglestead, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/02\/michael-jordan-showed-no-mercy-playing-sons-in-basketball\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jordan showed no mercy playing sons in basketball: \u2018Earn everything\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we&#8217;re playing one on one or me on two here, I don&#8217;t hold back&#8211;which unfortunately means I sometimes run over the younger of my boys yet.<\/p>\n<p>But I know that one day soon they will eclipse me in athletic prowess permanently, so I have to pad my winning percentage whilst I can.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, that very same youngest whom I sometimes run over in basketball runs away from me in 5Ks.  He ran a 26 minute 5K when he was ten, for crying out loud, only four or five years after I last carried him over the finish line in one.  They&#8217;ve already completed a modified virtual triathlon of a sprint distance (subbing in five minutes of cardio for a swim, followed by a 10 mile bike ride and then a 5K) last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, no mercy.  And hopefully they&#8217;ll show the same lack competitiveness with their old man once they&#8217;re beating me regularly, assuming that I don&#8217;t give up playing with them once they do.<\/p>\n<p>Which I might soon.  Because one does not make it into the Dad Hall of Fame with a losing record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan showed no mercy playing sons in basketball: \u2018Earn everything\u2019 When we&#8217;re playing one on one or me on two here, I don&#8217;t hold back&#8211;which unfortunately means I sometimes run over the younger of my boys yet. But I know that one day soon they will eclipse me in athletic prowess permanently, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136","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=26136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26138,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions\/26138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}