{"id":3196,"date":"2021-08-02T21:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dortju.com\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2021-08-02T21:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T21:15:25","slug":"what-is-greatness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"What is Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How Ivan Fernandez reacted towards Abel Mutai in the Burlada cross country race was great. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long story short when Abel was 100m from the finish line he arrived in a stadium to cheers &#8211; and thought he&#8217;d won so stopped running. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ivan was 900m behind and seen this. His rival had stopped short of the finish while in a clear lead thinking he&#8217;d completed the race. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He shouted him but Abel was from Kenya and had never heard a word of Spanish. When Ivan caught up to Abel he encouraged him over the finish line ahead of him to take first place. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When challenged on his behaviour and not just winning as he could have, he replied to the reporter saying &#8220;How would I look at my mother wearing that medal, knowing what she knew.&#8221; and it kind of ended the chat. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you take advantage in a way to sneak a win? Most actually would. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s why being able to not do it is what it means to be truly great. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carry your own worth but with enough grace to see when another outshines you. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be of oneself but not to the exclusion of others. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine if Trump became pals with Biden and said lets MAGA? <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That would be great. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Ivan Fernandez reacted towards Abel Mutai in the Burlada cross country race was great. Long story short when Abel was 100m from the finish line he arrived in a stadium to cheers &#8211; and thought he&#8217;d won so stopped running. Ivan was 900m behind and seen this. His rival had stopped short of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dortju.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}