{"id":11275,"date":"2013-02-18T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T02:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2013-02-18T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T02:02:07","slug":"michael-jordan-on-his-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/02\/18\/michael-jordan-on-his-50th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan on his 50th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw that ESPN was running a “Top 50 Michael Jordan highlights” retrospective this weekend. \u00c2\u00a0Which I found interesting, because… I take it that they’d use any excuse to run old Michael Jordan highlights — should certainly provide ratings over anything else they might show — but they do need an excuse, however flimsy.<\/p>\n

Apparently it was Michael Jordan’s birthday. \u00c2\u00a0And, yep, that does seem good enough.<\/p>\n

Behold. \u00c2\u00a0An alternate history time-line<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Full of lots of wonky topsy turbsy stuff. \u00c2\u00a0Lots of names out of the political graveyard and sports graveyard here — Calls for Impeachment of President Gary Hart over a sex scandal. \u00c2\u00a0(har har har.) \u00c2\u00a0Here we see Jordan leading the Baltimore Orioles to a World Series title. \u00c2\u00a0That’s his brief minor league baseball career, you will remember. \u00c2\u00a0I think I’d go ahead and wave that one and have Jordan lead the Washington Wizards to the NBA Title with his second comeback.<\/p>\n

… Which gives me this thought. \u00c2\u00a0If I were doing this retrospect of highlights. \u00c2\u00a0I’d just, rather randomly, toss in a home-run from his baseball career. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe around number 30. \u00c2\u00a0At about number 20 I’d show this one weird shot he had at the buzzer — regular season game against the lowly the Nets, which was an air-ball (just “willing the Bulls to defeat” — or a take on “Casey at the Bat”). \u00c2\u00a0The other 48 slots would be your basic Jordan highlight reel, which ESPN surely got to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw that ESPN was running a “Top 50 Michael Jordan highlights” retrospective this weekend. \u00c2\u00a0Which I found interesting, because… I take it that they’d use any excuse to run old Michael Jordan highlights — should certainly provide ratings over anything else they might show — but they do need an excuse, however flimsy. Apparently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11276,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions\/11276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}