{"id":11175,"date":"2016-03-29T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2016-03-29T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T20:31:07","slug":"an-existence-largely-shaped-by-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/an-existence-largely-shaped-by-dark-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"an existence largely shaped by dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walton

Walton watching the Portland Trail Blazers play in 1975, his foot immobilized by an injury. Bettman\/Getty Images. Courtesy of the New York Times.<\/p><\/div>\n

interesting article about bill walton<\/a>, the basketball player and announcer, who i grew up listening to:<\/p>\n

I had come to San Diego to speak with Walton about his life: the magic rainbows interweaving over the bottomless, flaming abyss. He tells that story in his new book, the amazingly subtitled \u201cBack From the Dead: Searching for the Sound, Shining the Light and Throwing It Down.\u201d For an athlete\u2019s biography, the book is surprisingly fatalistic: It begins with Walton on the brink of suicide and ends with many of his friends dying. It suggests an existence largely shaped by dark matter \u2014 all the things that didn\u2019t happen, that never coalesced, that went missing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and his miraculous growth spurt!<\/p>\n

At 14, Walton blew out his knee in a pickup game. It was during his recovery from that injury, while he lay in bed for three months, that Walton hit his improbable growth spurt: He got in bed at 6-foot-1 and got out at 6-foot-7\u00bd. This is one of the many ways in which Walton\u2019s basketball life seems mythological: The injury and the growth, the gift and the curse, were one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

interesting article about bill walton, the basketball player and announcer, who i grew up listening to: I had come to San Diego to speak with Walton about his life: the magic rainbows interweaving over the bottomless, flaming abyss. He tells that story in his new book, the amazingly subtitled \u201cBack From the Dead: Searching for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11177,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}