{"id":30230,"date":"2012-01-10T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_eddie_pells-media_tries_to_adjusts_to_tim_tebow\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:48:35","slug":"ap_eddie_pells-media_tries_to_adjusts_to_tim_tebow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30230","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Eddie Pells&#8211;Media tries to adjust to Tim Tebow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertaining as all that has been, it has made fans and the media rethink the way they judge and cover their sports stars. Reporting that a player was including the Lord in his postgame analysis has long been widely thought of as trite and inappropriate, something to simply skip over when typing in the quotes.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow\u2019s five fourth-quarter comebacks and his four overtime victories \u201d\u201d each more improbable than the last \u201d\u201d and his steady, genuine, yet somehow unassuming insistence on bringing God into the conversation has forced an uncomfortable question upon those who want to make it only about what happens between the lines.<\/p>\n<p>In a sports season filled with unsavory stories \u201d\u201d NFL and NBA labor wars, child sex abuse scandals at Penn State and Syracuse, and a baseball MVP accused of using steroids \u201d\u201d Tebow is seen by many as a sports star who really could be a role model.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/01\/10\/2107854\/commentary-media-adjusts-to-tebow.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertaining as all that has been, it has made fans and the media rethink the way they judge and cover their sports stars. Reporting that a player was including the Lord in his postgame analysis has long been widely thought<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30230\">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":[39,42,419,89,154,108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-media","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230","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=30230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}