{"id":4170,"date":"2012-09-08T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:54:59","slug":"lets-not-even-mention-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/09\/08\/lets-not-even-mention-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s not even mention race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe U.S. Tennis Association doesn&#8217;t want &#8220;the world&#8217;s No. 1 junior girls player, the reigning junior Australian Open singles champion and the junior Wimbledon doubles champion&#8221; playing tennis <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444273704577635530959121916.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">because she&#8217;s too fat<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nBut unbeknownst to everyone outside her inner circle, the USTA wasn&#8217;t happy to see Townsend in New York. Her coaches declined to pay her travel expenses to attend the Open and told her this summer that they wouldn&#8217;t finance any tournament appearances until she makes sufficient progress in one area: slimming down and getting into better shape.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Our concern is her long-term health, number one, and her long-term development as a player,&#8221; said Patrick McEnroe, the general manager of the USTA&#8217;s player development program. &#8220;We have one goal in mind: For her to be playing in [Arthur Ashe Stadium] in the main draw and competing for major titles when it&#8217;s time. That&#8217;s how we make every decision, based on that.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Tennis Association doesn&#8217;t want &#8220;the world&#8217;s No. 1 junior girls player, the reigning junior Australian Open singles champion and the junior Wimbledon doubles champion&#8221; playing tennis because she&#8217;s too fat: But unbeknownst to everyone outside her inner circle, the USTA wasn&#8217;t happy to see Townsend in New York. Her coaches declined to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numpties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}