{"id":5077,"date":"2020-01-29T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2020-12-15T06:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:38:36","slug":"kobe-bryant-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2020\/01\/29\/kobe-bryant-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant was right."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The recent tragic death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi has deeply unsettled me, as it has to many of us.  The only comforting thought I had about the entire tragedy was that at least they died together. I can think of nothing more unnatural than outliving your children.<br \/><br \/>I was never a fan of Kobe while he was a player, but I did come to respect him as a man who by all accounts was an amazing father who loved and supported his daughters. As a father with a young daughter of my own, I would agree that there is nothing better than being a &#8220;GirlDad&#8221;. If I know anything, I know I love my baby girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Girl-dad_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5078\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Girl-dad_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Girl-dad_n-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Girl-dad_n-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Girl-dad_n-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Girl-dad_n-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent tragic death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi has deeply unsettled me, as it has to many of us. The only comforting thought I had about the entire tragedy was that at least they died together. I can think of nothing more unnatural than outliving your children. I was never a fan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2020\/01\/29\/kobe-bryant-was-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kobe Bryant was right.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}