{"id":5705,"date":"2020-02-03T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2020-02-03T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:27:11","slug":"kobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2020\/02\/03\/kobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Kobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By Spencer Paterick &#8217;21, assistant editor<\/p>\n<p>Mamba\u2019s legacy will be remembered by fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>As much of the sports and pop culture world knows the legendary basketball player, Kobe Bryant died last week in a helicopter crash that also took the lives of eight other people, including one of Bryant\u2019s four daughters.<\/p>\n<p>After a week of remembrance and reflection, the world has more or less returned to normal. But it is not often that events such as this one occurs with such widespread influence.<\/p>\n<p>But Kobe\u2019s death is not something that will soon be forgotten. Stars from the NBA such as Shaquille O\u2019Neal and LeBron James, as well as NFL stars including Tom Brady and Saquon Barkley, shared how the loss of Kobe impacted them personally.<\/p>\n<p>His death not only rocked the basketball and sports world but also the lives of everyday people.<\/p>\n<p>Current college students grew up watching Kobe in the prime of his career. Even if you didn\u2019t consider yourself a Lakers fan, it is hard to deny his impact he had both on the court and on the lives of fans.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are a sports fan or not, his determination to be the best is something that we can all learn from. The \u201cMamba Mentality\u201d speaks for itself; it is the way that someone gets better at something.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Spencer Paterick &#8217;21, assistant editor Mamba\u2019s legacy will be remembered by fans around the world. As much of the sports and pop culture world knows the legendary basketball player, Kobe Bryant died last week <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2020\/02\/03\/kobe\/\" title=\"Remembering Kobe\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-opinion","9":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}