{"id":20726,"date":"2011-10-22T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=20726"},"modified":"2011-12-25T01:05:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:05:56","slug":"from-walden-pond-to-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=20726","title":{"rendered":"From Walden Pond to the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/WALDEN-sfSpan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41931\" title=\"Alex Trautwig for The New York Times\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/WALDEN-sfSpan-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Alex Trautwig for The New York Times<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swimming anyone???  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/22\/sports\/olympics\/walden-pond-to-olympics-alex-meyer-thrives-open-water.html?_r=1&amp;ref=sports\">Swimmer [Alex Meyer] Thrives in Open Water<\/a>.  Such beautiful picture.  It&#8217;s on the front page of the New York Times Sports, horizontally displayed.  I remembered reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=26161\">Fran Crippen<\/a>&#8216;s tragedy during a 10-kilometer race contested in the United Arab Emirates last year.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t hit the pool in a few months.  My heart aches for it.  Last time when I was out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10150334504698403.345546.551603402&#038;type=1&#038;l=039a3800cd\">on the Long Island Sound<\/a>, my first instinct was jump in [to the water].  When I saw someone water skiing, I simply drooled.  It\u2019s a torture to watch.<br \/>\nI got to find some time to swim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Trautwig for The New York Times . Swimming anyone??? Swimmer [Alex Meyer] Thrives in Open Water. Such beautiful picture. It&#8217;s on the front page of the New York Times Sports, horizontally displayed. I remembered reading Fran Crippen&#8216;s tragedy during a 10-kilometer race contested in the United Arab Emirates last year. I haven&#8217;t hit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}