{"id":452,"date":"2020-06-26T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:43:31","slug":"things-i-l-learned-from-my-father-6-root-for-the-underdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/things-i-l-learned-from-my-father-6-root-for-the-underdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I l Learned from My Father (#6): Root for the underdog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My father has always liked to root for the underdog. He went to Creighton, a small college in Omaha, Nebraska, and regularly travels by car or even airplane to support his Jays. Sometimes they succeed in sports and sometimes they don\u2019t. They are often matched up against bigger schools with more money and bigger athletic programs. It doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re still in there, they\u2019re still hungry and hustling, and they still have a chance to win. If you\u2019re the underdog, my dad is rooting for you. And so am I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.\u201d \u2014Walter Bagehot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father has always liked to root for the underdog. He went to Creighton, a small college in Omaha, Nebraska, and regularly travels by car or even airplane to support his Jays. Sometimes they succeed in sports and sometimes they don\u2019t. They are often matched up against bigger schools with more money and bigger athletic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/things-i-l-learned-from-my-father-6-root-for-the-underdog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things I l Learned from My Father (#6): Root for the underdog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}