{"id":2448,"date":"2012-09-18T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2012-09-17T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T22:52:17","slug":"book-14-of-52-spanning-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/book-14-of-52-spanning-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 14 (of 52) &#8211; Spanning The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2449\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spanning-World-Universe-Big-Time-All-Star\/dp\/B00127OGB4\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347920907&amp;sr=8-9&amp;keywords=len+berman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2449\" title=\"spanning\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanning.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanning-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spanning The World: The Crazy Universe of Big-Time Sports, All-Star Egos, and Hall of Fame Bloopers &#8211; Len Berman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in 2005, I went to Europe for the first time and my mom bought me this book to read on the flight. \u00a07 years later, again on a trip to Europe, I finally got around to it. \u00a0Len Berman is a local sports anchor in New York who, despite getting some national exposure with NBC over the years, I had never heard of. \u00a0He combines personal anecdotes with crazy sports stories for a rather easy, if unengaging read. \u00a0I can only assume that Berman&#8217;s fans would get more out of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005, I went to Europe for the first time and my mom bought me this book to read on the flight. \u00a07 years later, again on a trip to Europe, I finally got around to it. \u00a0Len Berman is a local sports anchor in New York who, despite getting some national exposure with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2281,2533,500,319,2532],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-europe","tag-len-berman","tag-nbc","tag-new-york","tag-spanning-the-globe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}