{"id":4840,"date":"2009-07-05T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2009-07-05T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:53:08","slug":"i-hate-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-hate-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be more accurate to say I hate team sports; this is probably because, in modern vernacular, I am not a <em>team player<\/em>. I don\u2019t want to be a team player \u2013 I even dislike the term. Of course, to get on in modern business, you have to at least give the appearance of being a team player. However, although still employed by a large company, I am too old, tired and crotchety to maintain any illusions of being one, having long given up any pretensions of <em>getting on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I do like tennis. It is the antithesis of a team sport: individuals battle physically and mentally\u00a0 &#8211; alone. When I was younger, fitter, thinner and taller I used to play tennis; I stopped when my son started beating me. But I still watch and enjoy Wimbledon; of course, the men\u2019s finals is always on Sunday, so I always miss it.<\/p>\n<p>I suspected Roger Federer would win and beat Pete Sampras\u2019s Grand Slam record; watching Federer ply his trade is like watching grace in motion. He deserved to win and is probably the greatest tennis player ever \u2013 until the next one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/46014000\/jpg\/_46014726_federer.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be more accurate to say I hate team sports; this is probably because, in modern vernacular, I am not a team player. I don\u2019t want to be a team player \u2013 I even dislike the term. Of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-hate-sport\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}