{"id":326,"date":"2009-06-10T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=326"},"modified":"2009-06-10T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:06:00","slug":"next-man-up-by-john-feinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/06\/next-man-up-by-john-feinstein.html","title":{"rendered":"Next Man Up by John Feinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0316013285\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Next Man Up<\/a> was written about a team other than the Baltimore Ravens.  I don&#8217;t care about the Ravens and they&#8217;re not even in the same conference as the team I do care about.  So I know little about their schedule, history, rivalries or players.  And didn&#8217;t much care to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, this was an excellent, enthralling book.  Feinstien&#8217;s writing is highly readable with enough detail to provide context but not enough to drown out the drama.  I do love behind-the-scenes NFL books to begin with and this was a superb example.  Please go write one about the NFC East!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish Next Man Up was written about a team other than the Baltimore Ravens. I don&#8217;t care about the Ravens and they&#8217;re not even in the same conference as the team I do care about. So I know little about their schedule, history, rivalries or players. And didn&#8217;t much care to learn. Nevertheless, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction","category-sportsfitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}