{"id":2192,"date":"2008-08-28T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2008-08-28T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:53:35","slug":"the-new-kids-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"The New Kids on the Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard people gossiping about little brawl broken out between Moscow and Georgia. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-admin\/?p=1310\">assassin<\/a> stepped down from presidency to be PM and now turned to be a bully. The West can&#8217;t do a thing. America&#8217;s army ties down in the Mid east. Might it be the French or German&#8217;s turn to police the world?<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t remember seeing it or read about it, but during one of Phelps&#8217; eight gold medal podium moments (the 6th I think), the US national anthem was cut short, while Bushes were in attendance. &#8216;Got the land of the free but apparently the home of the brave was no longer available. Did someone foreclose?&#8217; as one writer asked. So I wasn&#8217;t the only anal one who noticed, and I wasn&#8217;t the only boring one who even linger for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>A technical error, or\u00a0sour grape over one Yankee&#8217;s hauling up\u00a0so many gold? \u00a0OR .. they meant business??<\/p>\n<p>I was upset. US deserves respects. Beside, a good host would never embarrass her guest.\u00a0 You want to make them feel welcome and comfortable.\u00a0 That&#8217;s hospitality 101.\u00a0 I happened to like the The Star Spangled Banner and love to hear it in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>There are many other ways to show off your rising power and influence.<\/p>\n<p>New money never smells good and feels right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard people gossiping about little brawl broken out between Moscow and Georgia. The assassin stepped down from presidency to be PM and now turned to be a bully. The West can&#8217;t do a thing. America&#8217;s army ties down in the Mid east. Might it be the French or German&#8217;s turn to police the world? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[27,16],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-swim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}