{"id":873,"date":"2019-04-14T23:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T04:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:23:24","slug":"can-we-grant-others-the-second-chance-given-to-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/can-we-grant-others-the-second-chance-given-to-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we grant others the second chance given to Tiger?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"925\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tiger-holding-son-4-15-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-874\"\/><figcaption>Why do we struggle to give others the benefit of the second chance that Tiger Woods was given?  Imagine how many people this could help.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WOW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is truly the only word that came to mind watching Tiger&#8217;s\nwin at Augusta.&nbsp; It was an impressive\nperformance, even if it didn&#8217;t require him to shoot a lights-out round as he\nwatched his nearest competitors dump ball after ball into Rae&#8217;s Creek on\n#12.&nbsp;&nbsp; We will leave out the editorial\ncomments on their shot selections aimed at the far right of the bunker, instead\nof playing for the middle of that green with the tournament on the line?shocking\nmistakes for players that have been around long enough to know better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the accolades for Tiger poured in over the last few days\n(all well-deserved), it got me thinking about how unlikely it was.&nbsp; Not Tiger&#8217;s performance, but the fact that so\nmany people wanted to see him do well.&nbsp;\nAs a society, we often hear about the desire to see someone comeback\nfrom a past mistake.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the sidelines are littered with athletes, entertainers,\ncoaches, media members and others whose mistake was one simple act or\nmisstatement.&nbsp; Most of them do not\nreceive the same type of support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see millions of Americans who have been through the\ncriminal justice system. Virtually none of them are given much support in their\nsecond chance efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is that?&nbsp; What\ndistinguishes the cases in which a person is crucified for life for one small\nmistake, and another is seemingly easily forgiven for his transgressions?&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addiction cannot be the answer because many of the\nindividuals who are ex-communicated from college and pro sports teams were\narguably facing the same types of addiction issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not claim to have the answers to this question, but I\ndo find it fascinating.&nbsp; I wonder how\nmuch more we could accomplish as a society if employers, schools, spouses,\nsports leagues and media companies would grant this same level of forgiveness\nand support to those in their midst who needed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So each time you hear someone cheering on Tiger, take a\nminute to think through your own life and see who could use that support from\nyou!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the accolades for Tiger poured in over the last few days (all well-deserved), it got me thinking about how unlikely it was.  Not Tiger&#8217;s performance, but the fact that so many people wanted to see him do well.  As a society, we often hear about the desire to see someone comeback from a past mistake.   Should we give them all the second chance most have given to Tiger?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[370],"tags":[431,337,430,6,432,359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}