{"id":7408,"date":"2012-11-05T01:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2012-11-03T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T22:27:29","slug":"wwmad-what-would-muhammad-ali-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7408","title":{"rendered":"WWMAD? What Would Muhammad Ali Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z110512ali_cavett.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\nHave you ever had the discussion with friends about whether or not you (or they) would <strong>give up years of your life<\/strong> to be<strong> famous actor\/singer, world class athlete<\/strong>, or to <strong>have some super-human powers<\/strong>? \u00a0Discussions I&#8217;ve had and articles I&#8217;ve read seem to indicate that most would. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Recently <strong>Dick Cavett<\/strong> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/26\/how-the-mighty-are-fallen-or-wheres-my-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>How the Mighty Are Fallen (Or, Where&#8217;s My Friend?)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> for the <strong>New York Post<\/strong>. \u00a0The article is about <strong>Muhammad Ali<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Cavett<\/strong> asserts, and rightly so, that it was <strong>Ali<\/strong>&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;not <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">Elvis<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, not<\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\"> J.F.K<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">., not <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">Mickey Mouse<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, not <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">Jackie<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, not <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">Honest Abe<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">,<\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\"> Mick<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> or <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">Marilyn<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8230;who had the most recognized face in the world. \u00a0Further, <strong>Ali<\/strong> was perhaps the <strong>greatest athlete<\/strong> who ever lived. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Muhammad Ali<\/strong> was a boxer&#8230; the <em><strong>only three time<\/strong><\/em> <strong>World Heavyweight Champion<\/strong>. \u00a0Boxing brought <strong>Ali<\/strong> both his fame and his fortune. \u00a0Yet, as <strong>Dick Cavett<\/strong> writes, <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Few doubt that <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">Ali\u2019s<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> sad state was caused by head blows, akin to <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">N.F.L<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. cranium-smashing.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The sad state that <strong>Cavett<\/strong> refers to, is the<strong> Parkinson&#8217;s Disease<\/strong> which many feel was caused or at the very least accelerated by many wars <strong>Ali<\/strong> fought in the ring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Would <strong>Ali<\/strong>, given the chance to go back in time, trade away all of his fame and accomplishments for a healthy life? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Would you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Like <strong>Cavett<\/strong>, &#8220;I don&#8217;t suggest the answer is an obvious one.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Thanks and another round [non-alcoholic and non-boxing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2012\/11\/03\/go-read-it-143\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Mark Evanier for the original link<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had the discussion with friends about whether or not you (or they) would give up years of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-sports","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}