{"id":36180,"date":"2012-12-12T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_jere_longman-messis_brilliance_transcends_his_numbers\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:00:37","slug":"ny_times_jere_longman-messis_brilliance_transcends_his_numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36180","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Jere Longman&#8211;Messi\u2019s Brilliance Transcends His Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Pep Guardiola, the former manager of Barcelona, who once suggested that Lionel Messi should be observed instead of dissected. He is, after all, widely considered the world\u2019s greatest soccer player, not a biology project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t try to write about him,\u201d\u009d Guardiola said. \u201cDon\u2019t try to describe him. Watch him.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Messi set an international record by scoring his 86th goal in a calendar year, for both Barcelona and the Argentine national team, delivering an average of one goal every four days, more frequently than a starting pitcher takes the mound, as often as Starbucks opens a new store in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/12\/sports\/soccer\/messis-brilliance-transcends-his-numbers.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Pep Guardiola, the former manager of Barcelona, who once suggested that Lionel Messi should be observed instead of dissected. He is, after all, widely considered the world\u2019s greatest soccer player, not a biology project. \u201cDon\u2019t try to write<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36180\">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":[39,50,607,200,133,125,208,446,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-argentina","category-europe","category-history","category-men","category-south-america","category-spain","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36180","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=36180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}