{"id":2202,"date":"2008-09-01T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2008-09-01T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:55:52","slug":"fish-vs-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2202","title":{"rendered":"Fish vs Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mardy Fish of USA is playing Gael Monfils of France.\u00a0 I like Monfils: loose, casual and acrobatic,\u00a0can probably\u00a0scale the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainzone.com\/mountains\/detail.asp?fid=5523056\">Mount Marcy<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainzone.com\/mountains\/detail.asp?fid=5578356\">Algonquin Peak Summit<\/a>\u00a0like a monkey. \u00a0Fish serves and volleys .. so I&#8217;m for the American while Pumpkin is for the Acrobat.\u00a0 Mardy is leading two sets to love.<\/p>\n<p>French male tennis players have been the odd lot type, flamboyant but never last long to make an impact. Flash in the pants, did I get this idiom right? Noah, then Guy Forget (who&#8217;s rather gentlemanly looking, classic is quite fitting here), Cedric Pioline who played Pete Sampras in the 1993 US Open final when he said (he finished his semi prior to Pete&#8217;s) &#8220;I want Sampras&#8221; but predicable he lost to Pete 6:4, 6:4 and 6:3; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1380\">Jo-Wilfred Tsonga<\/a>\u00a0and now Gael Monfils .. they are all bride maids.<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone get the Geico commercial where the caveman was on the beach with a blond?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mardy Fish of USA is playing Gael Monfils of France.\u00a0 I like Monfils: loose, casual and acrobatic,\u00a0can probably\u00a0scale the Mount Marcy or Algonquin Peak Summit\u00a0like a monkey. \u00a0Fish serves and volleys .. so I&#8217;m for the American while Pumpkin is for the Acrobat.\u00a0 Mardy is leading two sets to love. French male tennis players have [&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":[9,19],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","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=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}