{"id":11491,"date":"2009-11-08T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2009-11-08T08:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T16:01:37","slug":"fleahab-a-mavericks-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11491","title":{"rendered":"FleaHab: A Mavericks Comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/flea_sfc.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/flea_sfc.jpg','popup','width=625,height=442,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/flea_sfc-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Flea Sfc\" \/><\/a>When the Mavericks contest window is open it seems there is never a more compelling story than that of Santa Cruz&#8217;s <strong>Darryl &#8220;Flea&#8221; Virostko<\/strong>. His tale of glory (he won the contest the first three years), collapse, and rebirth is nearly a clich\u00e9 hero&#8217;s journey, yet few have played it more intensely and lived. <\/p>\n<p>The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2009\/11\/08\/MNFK1ACCSE.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong> Demain Bulwa<\/strong> tells Flea&#8217;s story again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I can do it, anyone can do it,&#8221; the 37-year-old said of quitting drugs. &#8220;Because I went to the edge of the earth.&#8221;. . If Virostko wins, he&#8217;ll own four of seven titles. He could also use the $50,000 check. He recently had to sell his house to pay off $150,000 in back taxes and stay out of bankruptcy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all know the story, but it&#8217;s good to read it again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2009\/11\/08\/MNFK1ACCSE.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Mavericks contest window is open it seems there is never a more compelling story than that of Santa Cruz&#8217;s Darryl &#8220;Flea&#8221; Virostko. His tale of glory (he won the contest the first three years), collapse, and rebirth is nearly a clich\u00e9 hero&#8217;s journey, yet few have played it more intensely and lived. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}