{"id":658826,"date":"2010-02-08T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-4829366327000473453"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:50:25","slug":"john-wooden-pyramid-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658826","title":{"rendered":"John Wooden &#8211; Pyramid of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wooden\">John Wooden<\/a> before I came across this drawing on the wall of an old arena in Northeast Minneapolis (click for full size) &#8230;<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_2hHaWhfpgV4\/S3DO7yD9-9I\/AAAAAAABQfI\/Ude8INP4yjs\/s1600-h\/woodenpyarmidjpg.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_2hHaWhfpgV4\/S3DO7yD9-9I\/AAAAAAABQfI\/Ude8INP4yjs\/s320\/woodenpyarmidjpg.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436072276682210258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wooden was a basketball coach at UCLA, and he is said to have spent 14 years polishing versions of this drawing (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erhoops.org\/pdfs\/John%20Woodens%20pyramid%20of%20success.pdf\">pdf version<\/a>). He&#8217;s 99, so we should here more about him in a year or so.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a guide to competition one could do worse. There&#8217;s nothing there about curiosity, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, tolerance, imagination, empathy, creativity, love or questioning authority &#8211; it&#8217;s a guide to battle, not to life.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-4829366327000473453?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never heard of John Wooden before I came across this drawing on the wall of an old arena in Northeast Minneapolis (click for full size) &#8230; Wooden was a basketball coach at UCLA, and he is said to have spent 14 years polishing versions of this drawing (see pdf version). He&#8217;s 99, so we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Loe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}