{"id":829,"date":"2015-11-30T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robosapiens.kr\/?p=829"},"modified":"2015-11-30T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T03:20:29","slug":"dear-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Dear Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From the moment<br \/>\nI started rolling my dad\u2019s tube socks<br \/>\nAnd shooting imaginary<br \/>\nGame-winning shots<br \/>\nIn the Great Western Forum<br \/>\nI knew one thing was real:<\/p>\n<p>I fell in love with you.<\/p>\n<p>A love so deep I gave you my all \u2014<br \/>\nFrom my mind &amp; body<br \/>\nTo my spirit &amp; soul.<\/p>\n<p>As a six-year-old boy<br \/>\nDeeply in love with you<br \/>\nI never saw the end of the tunnel.<br \/>\nI only saw myself<br \/>\nRunning out of one.<\/p>\n<p>And so I ran.<br \/>\nI ran up and down every court<br \/>\nAfter every loose ball for you.<br \/>\nYou asked for my hustle<br \/>\nI gave you my heart<br \/>\nBecause it came with so much more.<\/p>\n<p>I played through the sweat and hurt<br \/>\nNot because challenge called me<br \/>\nBut because YOU called me.<br \/>\nI did everything for YOU<br \/>\nBecause that\u2019s what you do<br \/>\nWhen someone makes you feel as<br \/>\nAlive as you\u2019ve made me feel.<\/p>\n<p>You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ll always love you for it.<br \/>\nBut I can\u2019t love you obsessively for much longer.<br \/>\nThis season is all I have left to give.<br \/>\nMy heart can take the pounding<br \/>\nMy mind can handle the grind<br \/>\nBut my body knows it\u2019s time to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s OK.<br \/>\nI\u2019m ready to let you go.<br \/>\nI want you to know now<br \/>\nSo we both can savor every moment we have left together.<br \/>\nThe good and the bad.<br \/>\nWe have given each other<br \/>\nAll that we have.<\/p>\n<p>And we both know, no matter what I do next<br \/>\nI\u2019ll always be that kid<br \/>\nWith the rolled up socks<br \/>\nGarbage can in the corner<br \/>\n:05 seconds on the clock<br \/>\nBall in my hands.<br \/>\n5 \u2026 4 \u2026 3 \u2026 2 \u2026 1<\/p>\n<p>Love you always,<br \/>\nKobe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/dear-basketball\/\">from here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the moment I started rolling my dad\u2019s tube socks And shooting imaginary Game-winning shots In the Great Western Forum I knew one thing was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/?p=829\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Basketball<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[39,155],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-155","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defragment.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}