{"id":1449,"date":"2009-11-30T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/30\/tiger-pays-the-price-of-fame"},"modified":"2009-11-30T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:59:00","slug":"tiger-pays-the-price-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Tiger pays the price of fame"},"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 know exactly what would happen if I cracked up my car at 2 in the morning outside my little ol&#8217; house in southwest Amarillo: The EMTs would come, patch me up a little bit, take me to the hospital, release me to the care of my wife &#8212; and no one other than my loved ones and me would give a rip.<\/p>\n<p>Not so with Tiger Woods. He is paying the price of the fame he has accrued by being the greatest golfer in the universe this side of Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n<p>He banged up his car in front of his zillion-dollar house; reports said at first he was in &#8220;serious condition&#8221;; we learned later he was treated and released. Now there are reports about an affair, which Woods denies.<\/p>\n<p>He says the matter is private and he wants it &#8220;to stay that way.&#8221; I don&#8217;t blame him..<\/p>\n<p>But this is what happens in this celebrity-crazed society. The media glom onto stories like this because some people actually care about these things.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard it said that &#8220;Nothing good happens after midnight&#8221;? That&#8217;s especially true if you&#8217;re the most famous athlete on the planet.<\/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 know exactly what would happen if I cracked up my car at 2 in the morning outside my little ol&#8217; house in southwest Amarillo: The EMTs would come, patch me up a little bit, take me to the hospital, release me to the care of my wife &#8212; and no one other than my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tiger pays the price of fame<\/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-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","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=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}