{"id":24525,"date":"2011-02-13T03:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T03:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_indomitable_bill_russell_values_one_accolade_above_the_rest\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T03:40:57","slug":"the_indomitable_bill_russell_values_one_accolade_above_the_rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24525","title":{"rendered":"The Indomitable Bill Russell Values One Accolade Above the Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the greatest personal honor in his life?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The tentativeness of the question elicited the familiar whooping roar of laughter occasionally emitted by this publicly serious man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was about 77, my father and I were talking,\u201d\u009d Russell answered. \u201cAnd he said: \u201d\u02dcYou know, you\u2019re all grown up now, and I want to tell you something. You know, I am very proud of the way you turned out as my son, and I\u2019m proud of you as a father.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father is my hero, O.K., and I cannot perceive of anything topping that,\u201d\u009d Russell continued, his voice becoming husky&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/13\/sports\/basketball\/13russell.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the greatest personal honor in his life?&#8230;. The tentativeness of the question elicited the familiar whooping roar of laughter occasionally emitted by this publicly serious man. \u201cWhen he was about 77, my father and I were talking,\u201d\u009d Russell<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24525\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,101,98,129,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}