{"id":562,"date":"2006-08-01T01:29:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T08:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2006-08-01T01:29:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T08:29:55","slug":"countrywide-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/countrywide-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Countrywide Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Countrywide Classic\" alt=\"Countrywide Classic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0706\/countrywide.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So on Friday and Sunday my Mom and I catch some live tennis. Live tennis is a lot like televised tennis, but without the advertisements. That instantly makes it a thousand times better. Add to that the immediacy of a 360 degree chorus of oohs and aahs and you have a superior spectating experience. Unfortunately, all the big names are out before we get a chance to attend. Agassi, Safin, Hewitt and Roddick are either eliminated or bow out to injury. So on Friday we catch Robby Ginepri and Dominik Hrbaty (take notes, I&#8217;ll be quizzing you later) and then on Sunday we catch the final between Dmitry Tursunov and Tommy Haas.<\/p>\n<p>Haas wins a very large cup and a big bottle of sparkling wine to pour into it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0706\/court.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t tell in that picture above, but tennis has changed in the last few years. Balls have gotten a lot bigger. And I mean the green fuzzy ones. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0706\/ball.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on Friday and Sunday my Mom and I catch some live tennis. Live tennis is a lot like televised tennis, but without the advertisements. That instantly makes it a thousand times better. Add to that the immediacy of a 360 degree chorus of oohs and aahs and you have a superior spectating experience. Unfortunately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}