{"id":1107,"date":"2005-01-19T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T08:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/psst\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2005-01-19T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T08:44:21","slug":"1107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/1107\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ESPN.com: MLB - The interview: Malcolm Gladwell\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/columns\/neyer_rob\/1390690.html\">ESPN.com: MLB &#8211; The interview: Malcolm Gladwell<\/a> &#8211; more on situations creating greatness&#8211;or at least the idea of the possibility of greatness! &#8220;Dominicans are not &#8220;better&#8221; infielders than everyone else. But if you are a nine-year-old kid playing in San Pedro de Macoris, you know that it&#8217;s possible to be a major leaguer, in a way that the same kid growing up in Maine does not. When symbolic barriers are broken &#8212; the first man from the Dominican Republic to make the majors, the first person to break four minutes &#8212; the context in which we think of achievement changes dramatically.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN.com: MLB &#8211; The interview: Malcolm Gladwell &#8211; more on situations creating greatness&#8211;or at least the idea of the possibility of greatness! &#8220;Dominicans are not &#8220;better&#8221; infielders than everyone else. But if you are a nine-year-old kid playing in San Pedro de Macoris, you know that it&#8217;s possible to be a major leaguer, in a&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/1107\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9wjHJ-1107","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}