{"id":36377,"date":"2012-12-24T05:18:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T05:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/toronto_star_cathal_kelly-lionel_messis_greatness_cannot_be_measured\/"},"modified":"2012-12-24T05:18:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T05:18:14","slug":"toronto_star_cathal_kelly-lionel_messis_greatness_cannot_be_measured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36377","title":{"rendered":"(Toronto Star) Cathal Kelly&#8211;Lionel Messi\u2019s greatness cannot be measured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In assessing the greatness of Lionel Messi, Arsene Wenger, usually the world\u2019s most insightful soccer manager, once said a trite thing: \u201cWhen you look at the numbers, you have to kneel down and say they are fantastic.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Wenger was referencing the 2010-11 season, in which Messi scored 53 goals in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, in his last game before the Christmas break, Messi scored his 91st goal of 2012. So Messi not only crushed the 40-year-old calendar-year scoring record held by German Gerd Muller (85), he reversed over it a few times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/article\/1306192--lionel-messi-s-greatness-can-t-be-measured-kelly\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In assessing the greatness of Lionel Messi, Arsene Wenger, usually the world\u2019s most insightful soccer manager, once said a trite thing: \u201cWhen you look at the numbers, you have to kneel down and say they are fantastic.\u201d\u009d Wenger was referencing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36377\">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":[39,50,200,133,125,446,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-history","category-men","category-spain","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36377","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=36377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}