{"id":6386,"date":"2015-03-04T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2015-03-17T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T00:15:35","slug":"the-baller-formerly-known-as-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/04\/the-baller-formerly-known-as-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baller Formerly Known As Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/early-lead\/wp\/2015\/03\/04\/yes-prince-really-did-play-high-school-basketball-and-we-have-a-tremendous-photo-to-prove-it\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Yes, Prince really did play high school basketball, and we have a tremendous photo to prove it<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">By\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/des-bieler\" target=\"_blank\">Des Bieler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B_My8DOUwAEkj5b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By now, you should\u00a0have seen the hilarious \u201cChappelle Show\u201d skit in which Charlie Murphy recalls a night when Prince surprisingly schooled him in basketball (if not, drop everything and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KZnL8sCi4BM\" target=\"_blank\">check it out<\/a>). And there has been\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcheck.wnyc.org\/story\/274287-toure-i-would-die-4-u\/\" target=\"_blank\">some\u00a0corroboration<\/a>\u00a0that the diminutive pop star\/strange person really does\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/bands\/p\/prince\/news_feature_040428\/\" target=\"_blank\">have game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, we got something wonderful: An old photo of Prince in his high school basketball uniform, plus some words of praise from his coach at the time. This came from Libor Jany, a reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where the man who would later give us \u201cPurple Rain\u201d first learned to rain jumpers.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/early-lead\/wp\/2015\/03\/04\/yes-prince-really-did-play-high-school-basketball-and-we-have-a-tremendous-photo-to-prove-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from\u00a0The Washington Post Yes, Prince really did play high school basketball, and we have a tremendous photo to prove it By\u00a0Des Bieler By now, you should\u00a0have seen the hilarious \u201cChappelle Show\u201d skit in which Charlie Murphy recalls a night when Prince surprisingly schooled him in basketball (if not, drop everything and\u00a0check it out). And there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}