{"id":1030,"date":"2010-07-08T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/08\/resisting-the-temptation"},"modified":"2010-07-08T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T15:39:00","slug":"resisting-the-temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Resisting the temptation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am engaged in a titanic battle against temptation.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is the LeBron James Special, to be shown at 8 p.m. on ESPN. He will announce where he&#8217;ll play basketball until his next contract expires. The world is holding its breath. Not me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not exactly.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest curiosity is how ESPN will fill the first 59 minutes of the hour-long special, before James announces whether he&#8217;ll stay in Cleveland to play for the NBA Cavaliers, or move to some other city.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the temptation to actually tune in.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff drives me a little nutty at times.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care one bit about LeBron James&#8217; basketball future. I care even less about his unprecedented display of ego.<\/p>\n<p>But still, the temptation to watch this bizarre event is taxing my strength of will.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, for me a bigger story this week was former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr turning 70. Where was the TV special for a guy who helped raise a generation of graying baby boomers?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am engaged in a titanic battle against temptation. Tonight is the LeBron James Special, to be shown at 8 p.m. on ESPN. He will announce where he&#8217;ll play basketball until his next contract expires. The world is holding its breath. Not me. Well, not exactly. My biggest curiosity is how ESPN will fill the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resisting the temptation<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}