{"id":24211,"date":"2014-02-05T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/?p=24211"},"modified":"2014-02-06T05:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:34:52","slug":"recap-lakers-119-cavs-108-or-its-getting-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/?p=24211","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Lakers 119, Cavs 108 (or, it&#8217;s getting meta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfP9MFb12VI?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This season has crippled fans to the point where they are left guessing just how bad it can possibly get before it gets better.\u00a0 From the outside looking in, tonight&#8217;s game serves as another friendly reminder that it can always get worse.\u00a0 The Cavs lost at home, by double-digits, to a 16-32 (now 17) team, that was on the second night of a back-to-back, that was delayed into town by weather, and that <strong>was missing Jodie Meeks, Pau Gasol, Jordan Hill, Xavier Henry, and Shawne Williams<\/strong>.\u00a0 Those players rank: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th, and 9th in minutes played on a team that is ALREADY AWFUL.\u00a0 The Cavs, of course, were missing no players, yet almost everyone appears to have lost his basketball soul.\u00a0 The Cavs were seven point favorites in this game and trailed by 29 points after <em>fifteen<\/em> minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to get the quarter by quarter stuff out of the way as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1st:<\/strong> The Cavs failed at scoring in the paint and the Lakers ball movement lead to incredibly wide open threes.\u00a0 Wesley Johnson and Jordan Farmar seemed unstoppable.\u00a0 I think Johnson tallied 15 points included three treys and a monster put-back dunk.\u00a0 The Cavs packing of the paint allowed all these wide open threes, but they still couldn&#8217;t stop Chris Kaman from scoring at the basket.\u00a0 At least Delly got some burn at the end of the first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd:<\/strong> The Cavs looked small, slow, and discombobulated.\u00a0 (Later in the game the Lakers broadcast staff used the word &#8220;discombobulated&#8221; too) The Lakers were playing loose and springy, dominating the boards: 14-6.\u00a0\u00a0 Midway through, they had 15 made baskets and 13 were assisted.\u00a0 The Cavaliers defensive resistance was non-existent.\u00a0 The Lakers guards would drive, the Cavs would collapse, and 3 Lakers find themselves alone on the arc.\u00a0 In the event that the Lakers wanted to give the ball to Chris Kaman or Ryan Kelly (a future prime candidate for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vqwc_xz2PHc#t=1m46s\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;who he play for?&#8221;<\/a>), they had no problems with the Cavs front line.\u00a0 Oh, turns out Ryan Kelly played with Kyrie Irving at Duke.\u00a0 That figures he would outclass Crazy Drunken Truther Uncle Drew tonight.\u00a0 Everyone on the Lakers was scoring at will.\u00a0 (Guys that shouldn\u2019t be scoring at will.)\u00a0 The Lakers easily amassed 70 points at the half, their new season record for points in any half.\u00a0 They finished 10-17 from three while the Cavs were 1-18.\u00a0 (what in God&#8217;s name are the Cavs doing launching 18 threes against a front line of: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbarocksstc\/status\/431242321259397120\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Kaman<\/a>, Ryan Kelly, and Robert Sacre). \u00a0 The Lakers offensive execution was flawless: of their 25 baskets, 22 were assisted!\u00a0 (that&#8217;s crazy) They shot 60\/60\/90 from the field.\u00a0 Meanwhile the Cavs&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24212\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-8.51.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24212\" class=\" wp-image-24212\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-05 at 8.51.03 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-8.51.03-PM-520x633.png\" width=\"312\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-8.51.03-PM-520x633.png 520w, https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-8.51.03-PM-246x300.png 246w, https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-8.51.03-PM.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I hate the jump shot<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3rd: <\/strong>The Cavs came out of the locker room with a fire that can only be described as one of those flickering led candles that you see at hardware store bargain bins: seven points in six minutes.\u00a0 Mike Brown did a rage-quit hockey substitution around 7:30 remaining and Kyrie Irving&#8217;s butt was glued to the pine for the rest of the night.\u00a0 Bennett earned a Bronx cheer with an uncontested put-back lay-in and actually did it three more times in the quarter.\u00a0 More amazingly, he hit a 20 footer and drained two free throws.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a great quarter by any means but it was actual scoring against an (awful) NBA team.\u00a0 At least Bennett was hanging out around the rim and able to fight for offensive rebounds and put-backs. Normally, he spends too much time floating in spaces where he can&#8217;t add value.\u00a0 The Cavs actually outscored the Lakers in the third, 31-28 and C.J. Miles and Anderson Varejao have firmly entered &#8220;hey at least <em>that<\/em> guy is playing hard&#8221; territory on twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>4th:<\/strong> The Cavs took the momentum they created at the end of the third and carried it over to start the fourth.\u00a0 The Lakers stopped making shots and started playing on their heels.\u00a0 At one point the Cavs put together a 22-4 run to cut the lead to 10, and there was still 9:38 remaining in the game.\u00a0 Buckets-time right?\u00a0 Nope, not tonight.\u00a0 Mike Brown rode his unlikely tandem of Delly, Miles, Waiters, Varejao and Bennett(!).\u00a0 Meanwhile the Lakers were running into some serious problems.\u00a0 Remember that decimated squad I talked about earlier?\u00a0 Well, Nick Young (3rd on the roster in minutes this season) left the game with a leg injury in the 2nd quarter, and Jordan Farmar (having a fantastic game up to that point) left the game in the 4th with a leg injury.\u00a0 At the 8:29 mark, Chris Kaman fouled out of the game.\u00a0 At this point, the Lakers had only 5 available players, one of which was Robert Sacre who had 4 fouls.\u00a0 The TV crews along with various folks on twitter scrambled to figure out what would happen if Sacre fouled out or if anyone else was forced to leave the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-10.49.23-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24213\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-05 at 10.49.23 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-10.49.23-PM-520x521.png\" width=\"312\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-10.49.23-PM-520x521.png 520w, https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-10.49.23-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-10.49.23-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-05-at-10.49.23-PM.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If this seemed like a prime time to re-insert Kyrie and Deng, Mike Brown doesn&#8217;t think like you do.\u00a0 He continued to ride his scrappy-squad although they were not able to defend the Lakers well enough to close the gap.\u00a0 And then, with three and half minutes remaining, Robert Sacre fouled out.\u00a0 Turns out, in that event, NBA teams don&#8217;t have to play Normal Dale ball &#8211; they get to keep their fouled-out player on the court, but each subsequent foul by that player costs a technical foul as well.\u00a0 No, there was only room for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ITGwzan_0FY#t=7s\" target=\"_blank\">one Norman Dale tonight,<\/a> and that was Mike Brown, refusing to put Kyrie Irving back into the game even as the outcome sat within reach for almost the entire quarter.\u00a0 The Lakers broadcast crew used a timeout to ask Fred and AC what was going on with Kyrie and were told &#8220;coach&#8217;s decision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Steve Blake ruined the Cavs comeback plans with two dagger 3s, the last one setting a Lakers franchise record for 3-pointers made in a single game.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s think about that abstractly.\u00a0 Zoom out for a second.\u00a0 The Los Angeles Lakers, one of the two most storied franchises in the history of the sport, are going to have a single game record set by these players: Jordan Farmar, Steve Blake, Ryan Kelly, Kendall Marshall, and Wesley Johnson.\u00a0 Those players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Good:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-C.J. Miles was +21 in 29 minutes and the Cavs lost by double-digits.\u00a0 The Jarrett Jack experiment has failed.\u00a0 Lost in the chaos was a wrathful throwdown by Calvin Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-Anderson Varejao was +13 in 35 minutes.\u00a0 Play the guys that help you win games.\u00a0 You can find lists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.82games.com\/1314\/1314CLE.HTM\" target=\"_blank\">here,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotbuckets.com\/statistics\/apm\/2014-apm\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-Anthony Bennett scored 14 points and grabbed 8 rebounds.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been so apocalyptically awful this season that when he does things like this, scores 14 points on 10 shots against almost a D-League squad, Cavs fans just beam with excitement.\u00a0 The Cavs could lose by 200 to the Bucks but if Bennett makes a few shots it&#8217;s worth talking about in a positive light.\u00a0 Bennett&#8217;s play tonight overall is a positive (and I&#8217;ll leave it in the good section) but it is heartbreaking to me that he is not an explosive player.\u00a0 (Just jump higher!)\u00a0 He had 2 or 3 uncontested put backs that were firmly in the &#8220;below the rim&#8221; category.\u00a0 The Cleveland Cavaliers: undersized, unathletic, but somehow really young.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-The Cavs had 27 offensive rebounds.\u00a0 Mostly a product of all the missing, but also a sign that they didn&#8217;t stop hustling.\u00a0 Really, it was only the first quarter where the effort was lacking.\u00a0 The rest of the game was just a reflection of their complete lack of any defensive resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Bad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Too many things were bad about this game.\u00a0 The Cavs continue to make below average players seem amazing.\u00a0 Steve Blake had a triple-double, Ryan Kelly a career game&#8230;.I&#8217;ll just kick it over to some quotes (some are paraphrasing) from the Lakers&#8217; broadcast team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cThey (The Lakers) have found something they like in the Cleveland Cavaliers\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cThis is as fun as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cKyrie Irving\u2019s shooting percentages have dropped each year he\u2019s been in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cCavaliers just out of sync completely.\u00a0 You can see how discombobulated they are.\u00a0 Robert Sacre just finds himself all alone and Jarrett Jack has to try to contest him in the paint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cFor a team (the Lakers) that\u2019s lost 19 of its last 22\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cObviously it\u2019s taken Mike Brown a long time to get this team to play together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cThat\u2019s just terrible defense by the Cleveland Cavaliers, as Jordan just waltzs in, scores with the left hand.\u201d\u00a0 (replay is shown of Farmar easily getting past Jack, dribbling through two defenders, and laying in a left-handed layup with no resistance at the basket despite driving through 3 players)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-\u201cI\u2019m just saying they are missing so many players and they are ahead 93-66 in the 3rd?!?!?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.cleveland.com\/cavs_impact\/photo\/byron-scott-vert-apjpg-b6e6c604a5914cff_large.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Final Thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong> This was one of the stranger games I have seen a while.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/nba\/recap?gameId=400489598\" target=\"_blank\">MDA thought so as well.<\/a>\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure how well that thought emanated from my recap, but it was weird.\u00a0 The Cavs getting obliterated by whatever available players the Lakers had was weird.\u00a0 <em>That<\/em> team setting the franchise record for 3s in regulation was weird.\u00a0 The fouling out earning a technical is something I have never seen.\u00a0 Kyrie looking steaming mad sitting on the bench for almost the entire second half was weird.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is no easy solution to &#8220;fix&#8221; the Cavaliers.\u00a0 They look like they could be the worst team in the NBA at the moment and there are teams that have engaged in vicious organizational tanking to create a fierce level of suck.\u00a0 I know many fans want to see some heads roll but I don&#8217;t know what that would accomplish.\u00a0 After all, just a few weeks ago everyone was singing kumbaya in perfect harmony over Luol Deng&#8217;s difference making abilities.\u00a0 Remember that?\u00a0 Luol, the all-star and massive upgrade over the Cavs sorry excuses for SF, was 1-10 tonight going up against&#8230;I dunno Wesley Johnson? (who scored at will against Deng)\u00a0 Luol, the culture changer, added to a team that has since seen their culture accelerate into a downward spiral.\u00a0 It may have been a house of cards all season, with the &#8220;buddy ball&#8221; confrontations and whatever happened with Andrew Bynum.\u00a0 But since Deng got here, it feels like that house, swaying in the breeze, has been vaporized in a nuclear attack.\u00a0 So, consider that my devastating argument against doing anything rash.\u00a0 Even the fixes that seem so obvious, so simple, and so undeniably necessary might not solve anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That said, I don&#8217;t know how to continue to mount a defense of Mike Brown.\u00a0 I am a Brown apologist and I feel like most criticism lobbed at him before this season was lacking perspective.\u00a0 But the longer this goes on, it becomes part of his body of work and it becomes harder to defend him.\u00a0 The only aspect of Mike Brown&#8217;s past that I was genuinely concerned about was his lack of developing young talent.\u00a0 What I don&#8217;t understand about this Cavs team is how Jarrett Jack has become a shell of himself.\u00a0 And now the Cavs defense under Deng <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WFNYJacob\/status\/431282056509657088\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">has been abominable<\/a>.\u00a0 Something has infected this team.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe the core players were ever as talented as we all believed, but I also don&#8217;t think anyone saw the Cavs being this bad.\u00a0 Vegas certainly didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season has crippled fans to the point where they are left guessing just how bad it can possibly get&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24211"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24227,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions\/24227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24211"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=24211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}