{"id":2453,"date":"2020-12-14T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2020-12-14T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:00:28","slug":"sports-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2453","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sports Person of the Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cody-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cody-photo-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cody-photo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cody-photo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cody-photo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve just picked my local &#8220;Sports Person of the Year&#8221; for one of the area newspapers I write for.  The boy is a senior at Ada High School, has a mild form of autism, and gets in games, occasionally, toward the end &#8212; if the team is winning, or losing, by a lot.  He&#8217;s played football, basketball, and baseball since he was quite young.  And even though he knows he&#8217;s not going to get in the games much, he, nonetheless, gives it 100% at practice.  One of his coaches told me the boy is an &#8220;absolute joy&#8221; to be around, and consistently brings everyone&#8217;s moods up.  The true character (Notre Dame University student) in the movie &#8220;Rudy&#8221; comes to mind.  We could learn from these guys, well, more than we often do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just picked my local &#8220;Sports Person of the Year&#8221; for one of the area newspapers I write for. The boy is a senior at Ada High School, has a mild form of autism, and gets in games, occasionally, toward <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2453\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}