{"id":7980,"date":"2010-07-09T01:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T01:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=7980"},"modified":"2010-07-08T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T21:41:17","slug":"new-balls-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=7980","title":{"rendered":"New Balls Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Sharapova\" src=\"\/images\/maria-sharapova.jpg\" alt=\"Sharapova\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Quite by chance I ended up watching part of the Djokovic match the other afternoon.\u00a0 Well , no, I\u2019ll rephrase that, I was painting my toe nails in my bedroom and decided to turn the television on for some background noise.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never really been interested in sport, that is with the exception of Winter sports which I do like to watch.\u00a0 I think the reason for my lack of interest spurs from two key things in my life growing up.<\/p>\n<p>The first being boys who I had crushes on always seemed to let football come between us.\u00a0 Their loss.\u00a0 Lol\u00a0 And the second many cold afternoons stood outside in mid Winter playing hockey at school.\u00a0 I hate hockey with a vengeance and tried to avoid getting involved in the m\u00eal\u00e9e to preserve my ankles.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey sticks and spiteful girls usually resulted in getting a good hook on the ankle bone and it was to be avoided at all costs.\u00a0 I spent most of my time chatting to a like minded friend back down the field away from the action.<\/p>\n<p>I almost forgot, went off at a bit of a tangent there, you should have stopped me.\u00a0 Lol\u00a0 So I\u2019m listening to the match and hear this rather refined English voice instructing the players.\u00a0 I looked up to see a very nice tall dark, well groomed man sitting up his ladders and was almost tempted for a minute to watch just for the fleeting glimpses of him.<\/p>\n<p>So much so I actually watched for about 10 minutes and he didn\u2019t appear again so I turned off.\u00a0 His loss\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite by chance I ended up watching part of the Djokovic match the other afternoon.\u00a0 Well , no, I\u2019ll rephrase that, I was painting my toe nails in my bedroom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=7980\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,35,25],"tags":[2485,2486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7982,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}