{"id":426,"date":"2004-01-05T13:32:58","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T18:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/coming_clean\/"},"modified":"2004-01-05T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T18:32:58","slug":"coming_clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/coming_clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Pete Rose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/2004-01-05-rose_x.htm\">finally admits he bet on baseball<\/a>.  Why now, after all these years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As long as Rose is banned from baseball, he is ineligible for the Hall of Fame ballot. His last chance to appear on the writers&#8217; ballot is December 2005. After that, if he&#8217;s reinstated, he could be voted in by the veterans&#8217; committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If he doesn&#8217;t get into the Hall now, it&#8217;s going to get more difficult for him.<br \/>\nI can understand why he might initially denied betting.  That seems to be a natural reaction when one gets caught doing wrong.  But for him to carry on with his act for all these years, then reverse course <i>should<\/i> make him feel really stupid.  Apparently, however, it isn&#8217;t&#8211;he&#8217;s being described as &#8220;not very apologetic.&#8221;<br \/>\nI guess that&#8217;s a typical contemporary American celebrity for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/coming_clean\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Coming Clean\"><p>So Pete Rose finally admits he bet on baseball. Why now, after all these years: As long as Rose is banned from baseball, he is ineligible for the Hall of Fame ballot. His last chance to appear on the writers&#8217; ballot is December 2005. After that, if he&#8217;s reinstated, he could be voted in by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}