{"id":2160,"date":"2009-02-23T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2009-02-22T22:52:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T03:52:36","slug":"the-latitude-to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"The Latitude To Be Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former centerfielder and now occasional\u00a0Times\u00a0columnist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/20\/opinion\/20glanville.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">Doug Glanville\u00a0defends Alexander Rodriguez<\/a> in the only way possible, asking that we not judge this man too harshly, or any of our fellow humankind, for despite the near perfection of A-Rod&#8217;s game, he, like all of us, needs the latitude to be human:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So whether you are A-Rod or the last guy to make the team out of spring training, you might not always be as forthcoming as some would like. It could be for fear of not living up to something, or to keep someone safe, or maybe it\u2019s pure deception \u2014 all the ways we all use to avoid facing certain unpleasantries in our lives. It\u2019s human nature to preserve and protect. And even though this game inspires magic, its magicians need the latitude to be human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former centerfielder and now occasional\u00a0Times\u00a0columnist\u00a0Doug Glanville\u00a0defends Alexander Rodriguez in the only way possible, asking that we not judge this man too harshly, or any of our fellow humankind, for despite the near perfection of A-Rod&#8217;s game, he, like all of us, needs the latitude to be human: So whether you are A-Rod or the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[24,8,46,50],"tags":[1402,1412],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-morality","category-prose","category-reflections","tag-alexander-rodriguez","tag-doug-glanville"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-yQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}