{"id":7809,"date":"2009-05-29T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=7809"},"modified":"2009-05-29T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:41:09","slug":"nadal-and-the-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=7809","title":{"rendered":"Nadal and the attached strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/image5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/image4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/image7.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"left\" \/>Rafael Nadal is pounding the earth with Hewitt, taped delayed. He wears yellow bands, pink shirt and grey short. And he still fudges with his G-string. Might be it&#8217;s time to introduce him to C-string? Raf hasn&#8217;t changed much over the years, still very humble and energetic; a small town boy, intense but donw to earth.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=9792\">How long can he last on the tour<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/0m.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"167\" height=\"213\" align=\"right\" \/>I thought of Tiger who\u2019s bit sneaky, in a way: he\u2019d look around without turning his head and has that kind of smirk on his face just telling everyone else in his vicinity that he\u2019s just that tad better then the rest of us.<br \/>\nI also thought of Tiger&#8217;s mother who claimed Tiger had suffered discrimination on his way up, due to his skin color \u2013 I once saw it on a TV interview, briefly. I couldn\u2019t actually believe it.<br \/>\nImagery?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/0m1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"188\" \/>This country appreciates talent, color of skin comes second or third, if it comes at all. Ya, we all see colors, but that stops there pretty much. See how much courtesy this country is bestowing on Michelle Obama? <\/p>\n<p>Nice pictures for the first lady. How much have they been workshopped? Btw .. did anyone see Maria Sharapova&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/news\/photos\/2009-05-23\/200905231243082669973.html?glryid=2009-05-23\/20090523\">facial skin<\/a>? Terrible .. I always consider Anna K is prettier .. who cared that K never won a match?  I just want to be entertained for few hours \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1900067,00.html\">Time article<\/a>, By Nancy Gibbs and Michael Scherer claimed that Michelle has more fun than Laura Bush. I found that assertion is presumptuous. Where is the evidence? What made them think that Laura didn\u2019t have fun as the First Lady? And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1208\">How Do You Measure happiness<\/a> and fun-ness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal is pounding the earth with Hewitt, taped delayed. He wears yellow bands, pink shirt and grey short. And he still fudges with his G-string. Might be it&#8217;s time to introduce him to C-string? Raf hasn&#8217;t changed much over the years, still very humble and energetic; a small town boy, intense but donw to [&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":[27,9],"class_list":["post-7809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7809","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=7809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}