{"id":326,"date":"2006-06-19T16:47:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T00:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:37:57","slug":"20-years-burnin-down-the-road-bias-still-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Burnin&#8217; Down the Road: Bias still hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 19, 1986:<\/strong> Walking down the halls of Angier Elementary, someone tells us that Len Bias, the recent first-round draft pick and next in the line of legendary hoopsters for the hometown Boston Celtics, has died. &#8220;Yeah, right&#8221;, I say. It wasn&#8217;t possible. Cocaine? He was a great kid &#8211; Red Auerbach said so. No Way!<\/p>\n<p>Way.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PsE0Th50SII\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PsE0Th50SII\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19, 1986: Walking down the halls of Angier Elementary, someone tells us that Len Bias, the recent first-round draft pick and next in the line of legendary hoopsters for the hometown Boston Celtics, has died. &#8220;Yeah, right&#8221;, I say. It wasn&#8217;t possible. Cocaine? He was a great kid &#8211; Red Auerbach said so. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}