{"id":45862,"date":"2019-03-22T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45862"},"modified":"2019-03-23T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:15:44","slug":"is-it-ever-too-late-to-pursue-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/is-it-ever-too-late-to-pursue-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lengthy article on Longreads (duh) follows 40-year old Dan Stoddard on his quest to become the oldest rookie ever to join the NBA, and asks the musical question: is it ever too late to pursue a dream?<\/p>\n<p>I certainly hope not, for me and for you. Now, I don&#8217;t advise you to go through life with\u00a0torn stomach muscles, blown glutes, daily muscle cramps, and soreness, but I do hope you follow along whatever path brings you joy for as long as it brings you joy (if not wads of money).<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to enjoy this story of a man whose dream is way crazier than yours and yet is still making it happen, in his own way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2019\/03\/19\/is-it-ever-too-late-to-pursue-a-dream\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@bentonphotocinema?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Jordan Benton<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/shallow-focus-of-clear-hourglass-1095601\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lengthy article on Longreads (duh) follows 40-year old Dan Stoddard on his quest to become the oldest rookie ever to join the NBA, and asks the musical question: is it ever too late to pursue a dream? I certainly hope not, for me and for you. Now, I don&#8217;t advise you to go through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[466,482],"class_list":["post-45862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-inspiration","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46036,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45862\/revisions\/46036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}