{"id":36480,"date":"2011-06-11T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36480"},"modified":"2011-06-11T02:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:54:30","slug":"the-russians-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36480","title":{"rendered":"The Russians Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few opponents I&#8217;ve had recently were Russians.  I can&#8217;t describe it in words but I could feel it.  They just looked the part.  The girl I played last night was a Division I player who still looks like a college kid.  I told her so and she was very flattered.  Did I forget my \u8001\u82b1\u955c again?  I was bewildered that a young woman wants to look younger.  When I was at her age, I wanted to be older!<br \/>\nWhen I was teen .. I wanted to be 18, thinking <em>how cool<\/em><br \/>\nWhen I was 18, I couldn&#8217;t wait to be 20 ..<br \/>\nWhen I was 20, I thought 30 is <em>it<\/em> ..<br \/>\nWhen I was 30, 40 looked delicious ..<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m 50, not sure I wanted to be 60 -:)<br \/>\n..<br \/>\nBack to tennis.  The kid served me a bagel.  She attended Michigan State because all the good players have gone to Uni of Michigan and the State desperately needed a decent players for its tennis team.  So they import <em>talents<\/em>, as long as US still holds and cloud.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few opponents I&#8217;ve had recently were Russians. I can&#8217;t describe it in words but I could feel it. They just looked the part. The girl I played last night was a Division I player who still looks like a college kid. I told her so and she was very flattered. Did I forget my \u8001\u82b1\u955c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480","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=36480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}