{"id":2158,"date":"2008-08-11T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2008-08-11T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:23:50","slug":"yao-ming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Yao Ming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents met on the basketball court, Dad was the captain of the Katyusha (it&#8217;s in the 50s, what do you expect for a name?) and Mom played forward. But I was never infatuated with it. Not even with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/olympics\/beijing\/basketball\/news?slug=aw-yaoteamusa081008&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\">Yao Ming<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2154\">Half naked men<\/a> running around isn&#8217;t all that attractive, compare\u00a0to, i.e. &#8211;\u00a0ice hockey or football. Yes, those two are definitely my favored spectator sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one thing they do with all of their athletes is drive them into the ground with training. The strongest survive. If you don\u2019t, they\u2019ll find another to come and do it.&#8221;\u00a0 Too bad.\u00a0 China ought to know how to protect their most valuable possession or investment.\u00a0 The mentality is so wrong.\u00a0 1.3b people bred this wrong mentality.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you see as the joke goes, many Chinese has the biggest house in an area, but it&#8217;s mostly empty: they don&#8217;t believe to spend money on decorating and maintaining it.<\/p>\n<p>Jiujiu watched it.\u00a0 He said, &#8220;I think China actually won&#8221; because in the past, the scores were in 40 pt deficit.\u00a0 With Yao China managed it to 31.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s a win \ud83d\ude42\u00a0.. he has a point.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents met on the basketball court, Dad was the captain of the Katyusha (it&#8217;s in the 50s, what do you expect for a name?) and Mom played forward. But I was never infatuated with it. Not even with\u00a0Yao Ming. Half naked men running around isn&#8217;t all that attractive, compare\u00a0to, i.e. &#8211;\u00a0ice hockey or football. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}