{"id":1245,"date":"2011-07-01T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2011-07-01T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:03:59","slug":"wagner-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Wagner &#038; The NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/commentary\/news\/story?id=6657430\">From ESPN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even the Mavericks&#8217; eventual victory seemed to me a grim thing hammered out of Teutonic ambition on a dark mountainside. As unsmiling as anything from Wagner, this was the championship Ring Cycle, with Dirk Nowitzki gripped in the irons of Fate, hollow-eyed and mad with fever, hauling Wotan and Br\u00fcnnhilde and Dwyane Wade up and down the court for eternity.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great Finals series in memory, it made plenty of people happy &#8212; but seemed itself to be made entirely of ambitions born from unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James was only a footnote in that larger epic. A cautionary aside. A stage direction. The vampire press will get that wrong, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ESPN:<\/p>\n<p>Even the Mavericks&#8217; eventual victory seemed to me a grim thing hammered out of Teutonic ambition on a dark mountainside. As unsmiling as anything from Wagner, this was the championship Ring Cycle, with Dirk Nowitzki gripped in the irons of Fate, hollow-eyed and mad with fever, hauling Wotan and Br\u00fcnnhilde and Dwyane Wade [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}