{"id":51041,"date":"2023-03-21T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=51041"},"modified":"2024-10-08T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T17:12:31","slug":"fortune-how-bomani-jones-scored-a-hit-hbo-show-and-stayed-at-espn-20-years-after-flunking-out-of-graduate-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=51041","title":{"rendered":"FORTUNE: How Bomani Jones scored a hit HBO show and stayed at ESPN 20 years after flunking out of graduate school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018This was never the plan\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGetting knocked down sometimes isn\u2019t because there\u2019s something wrong with you. I think that that\u2019s an important thing that a lot of people need to hear,\u201d Jones added. He said he\u2019s learned to think of the stops in his career \u201cin the context of what they were, not the context of how they ended.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/03\/21\/bomani-jones-hbo-game-theory-season-2-espn-podcast-right-time\/\" style=\"border-radius:13px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018This was never the plan\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":51044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48,72,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-media","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}