{"id":32842,"date":"2011-05-19T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32842"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:48:04","slug":"i-dont-find-it-fascinating-that-a-former-great-basketball-player-now-lives-on-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32842","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Find It Fascinating That A Former Great Basketball Player Now Lives On The Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Front and center on NYTimes.com right now is this story: &#8220;Ex-Basketball Prodigy Roams the Streets: Lewis Brown seemed destined for N.B.A. stardom. Decades later, his life is an arc of triumph and defeat, as he sleeps on Los Angeles sidewalks and washes car windows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I read that, I figured the guy&#8217;s downfall was drugs, alcohol and\/or mental illness.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/20\/us\/20homeless.html?hp\">I clicked on the story and found out I was right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course someone who&#8217;s criminally inclined, a drug user, and difficult is going to have a lot of problems in life.<\/p>\n<p>Success on the basketball court leads to nothing. It&#8217;s irrelevant for life success. These anti-social thugs turn up homeless? I&#8217;m shocked. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t hear of many A-students or religiously-disciplined types who end up homeless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front and center on NYTimes.com right now is this story: &#8220;Ex-Basketball Prodigy Roams the Streets: Lewis Brown seemed destined for N.B.A. stardom. Decades later, his life is an arc of triumph and defeat, as he sleeps on Los Angeles sidewalks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[26443,20880,26444,26446,26445,23506],"class_list":["post-32842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-arc-of-triumph","tag-basketball-court","tag-basketball-player","tag-car-windows","tag-life-success","tag-stardom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32843,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32842\/revisions\/32843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}