{"id":3186,"date":"2010-06-20T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T00:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/?page_id=3186"},"modified":"2014-11-09T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:06:56","slug":"what-is-a-player","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/sports-poems\/what-is-a-player\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A player is one who doesn&#8217;t give up at the sight of defeat,<br \/>\nBut learns from their mistakes and puts them beneath.<\/p>\n<p>A player is one who doesn&#8217;t give up at the sound of the buzzer,<br \/>\nAlways giving what they have from one side of the court to the other.<\/p>\n<p>A player is one who doesn&#8217;t whine about their playing time,<br \/>\nBecause a player knows it&#8217;s an unacceptable crime.<\/p>\n<p>A player is one who practices game-speed,<br \/>\nAlways keeping in mind that their shots are not guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>A player is one who doesn&#8217;t settle for anything less,<br \/>\nEven knowing, that they&#8217;re not the best.<\/p>\n<p>They will be the ones you see outside practicing,<br \/>\nDay or Night, Rain or shine,<br \/>\nThey are the ones running on hurt ankles, admitting there fine.<\/p>\n<p>A player is one who has a strong, sensible mind,<br \/>\nNever pondering about failing, only contemplating prevailing.<\/p>\n<p>A player is one who doesn&#8217;t chicken out,<br \/>\nWho wants to be in the game when everything counts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that is a true player.<\/p>\n<p><em>Author: Jessica Taylor <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A player is one who doesn&#8217;t give up at the sight of defeat, But learns from their mistakes and puts them beneath. A player is one who doesn&#8217;t give up at the sound of the buzzer, Always giving what they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1013,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6851,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3186\/revisions\/6851"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}