{"id":175,"date":"2013-06-12T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2013-06-10T06:43:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T06:43:33","slug":"sports-celebrities-in-their-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/sports-celebrities-in-their-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Celebrities \u201cIn Their Own Words\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of being a rich and famous athlete or coach is that you get to write your autobiography. It\u2019s understood that a professional writer may be involved in helping the celebrity put the thing into book form.<\/p>\n<p>But being good at what you do doesn\u2019t mean you have a great story to tell. And sometimes your story is best left in the hands of someone else. Here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/2011\/05\/31\/9-classic-sports-biographies-every-fan-should-read\/\">list of nine sports biographies<\/a> that make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>This covers a mix of American sports, with more on baseball than any other. But we have \u2018Seabiscuit\u2019 and a biography of Muhammad Ali, the autobiography of Arthur Ashe and more.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of being a rich and famous athlete or coach is that you get to write your autobiography. It\u2019s understood that a professional writer may be involved in helping the celebrity put the thing into book form. But being good at what you do doesn\u2019t mean you have a great story to tell. And sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/sports-celebrities-in-their-own-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sports Celebrities \u201cIn Their Own Words\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}