{"id":174,"date":"2009-09-09T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T02:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annakatedonovan.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-09-09T21:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T02:05:27","slug":"wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"wish list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of things I wish I could do well.\u00a0 One of them is to play tennis.\u00a0 Every year, I watch the grand slam events almost obsessively.\u00a0 This obsession started in high school.\u00a0 Two of my best friends are great tennis players and I loved to watch them play.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am watching the US Open.\u00a0 I just watched Melanie Oudin lose to Caroline Wozniacki.\u00a0 The talent of these teenagers is nothing short of awesome.\u00a0 They are unbelievably good and between the two of them, they have taken out many of the top seeded players in the first week of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The only other sport I watch this intently is college football.\u00a0 Alabama football to be exact.\u00a0 But I have absolutely <strong>no<\/strong> desire to play football.\u00a0 Tennis, on the other hand, looks fun.\u00a0 I think I might be able to play doubles if I were a little more flexible.\u00a0 And coordinated.\u00a0 And quick on my feet.\u00a0 And in shape.\u00a0 And owned a racket&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I am happy to live vicariously through my television as I watch athletes half my age duke it out on center court.\u00a0 What&#8217;s my excuse?\u00a0 I have 3 little girls age 8 and under.\u00a0 That&#8217;s got to be harder than tennis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">There are a lot of things I wish I could do well.\u00a0 One of them is to play tennis.\u00a0 Every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[78,77,75,76,74],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-random-thoughts","tag-alabama-football","tag-caroline-wozniacki","tag-grand-slam","tag-melanie-oudin","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}