{"id":30775,"date":"2023-01-27T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=30775"},"modified":"2023-01-27T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:46:11","slug":"stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=30775","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith\u2019s Real Gift Is Keeping the Focus on Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Illustration by Erin O&#8217;Flynn\/The Daily Beast\/Lachlan Cunningham\/Getty ImagesIn his new book, Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes, Stephen A. Smith describes himself as the \u201cnumber one sports-media personality in America.\u201d He may just be right if we keep the emphasis on personality&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself?source=articles&#038;via=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Illustration by Erin O&#8217;Flynn\/The Daily Beast\/Lachlan Cunningham\/Getty ImagesIn his new book, Straight Shooter: A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself.jpg",1480,833,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself.jpg",1480,833,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself.jpg",1480,833,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/30775-stephen-a-smiths-real-gift-is-keeping-the-focus-on-himself-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}