{"id":4884,"date":"2012-10-03T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2012-10-03T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:49:53","slug":"bill-walton-recapping-career-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4884","title":{"rendered":"Bill Walton Recapping Career, New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/walton_before_after2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4885\" title=\"walton_before_after2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/walton_before_after2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Basketball great Bill Walton is ready to recap his amazing career and even more amazing recovery.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster announced Wednesday that Walton, 59, is working on a memoir that will come out in the fall of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The book is tentatively called &#8220;Back From the Dead.&#8221; It will cover everything from Walton&#8217;s triumphs with UCLA to his overcoming a stutter and becoming a broadcaster to the collapsed spine that left him hardly able to move for three years.<\/p>\n<p>The book will be co-authored by veteran sportswriter John Papanek.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Financial terms were not disclosed. Walton was represented by<br \/>\nWashington attorney Robert Barnett, whose clients range from<br \/>\nPresident Barack Obama to singer\/actress Barbra Streisand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Basketball great Bill Walton is ready to recap his amazing career and even more amazing recovery. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster announced Wednesday that Walton, 59, is working on a memoir that will come out in the fall of 2013. The book is tentatively called &#8220;Back From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}