{"id":8665,"date":"2014-08-27T19:45:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2014-08-27T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T19:50:51","slug":"my-past-is-littered-with-the-bones-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/my-past-is-littered-with-the-bones-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"my past is littered with the bones of men"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI bet you can tell I\u2019m a woman,\u201d she said, \u201cand I suspect the rest of the world can, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"321\" data-total-count=\"1167\">She said she was all too aware that if she was selected, she would represent several hundred male athletes in the N.B.A.; she would deal with league officials and agents who were nearly all men; she would negotiate with team owners who were almost all men; and she would stand before reporters who were predominantly men.<\/p>\n<p>She did not flinch. &#8220;My past is littered with the bones of men who were foolish enough to think I was someone they could sleep on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/17\/sports\/basketball\/michele-roberts-nba-unions-new-leader-confronts-gender-barriers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Roberts<\/a>, the NBA\u2019s new union leader<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(via <a href=\"http:\/\/annfriedman.com\/post\/95203018998\/my-past-is-littered-with-the-bones-of-men-who-were\" target=\"_blank\">annfriedman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI bet you can tell I\u2019m a woman,\u201d she said, \u201cand I suspect the rest of the world can, too.\u201d She said she was all too aware that if she was selected, she would represent several hundred male athletes in the N.B.A.; she would deal with league officials and agents who were nearly all men; [&hellip;]<\/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-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","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=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8667,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}