{"id":3072,"date":"2010-06-23T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T23:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2010-06-23T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T23:19:23","slug":"mahut-isner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"Mahut-Isner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is ridiculous.  Nicholas Mahut and John Isner are about to go into day three of a Wimbledon match.  The score in the final game is currently 59-59.<\/p>\n<p>No, I didn&#8217;t mistype that.  <i>59-59<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I know the rules say you have to win by two games.  But at some point, don&#8217;t the authorities in charge have to put a stop to this?  Can&#8217;t they just say, &#8220;Look, whoever wins the first match tomorrow wins.&#8221;  I know it&#8217;s a disadvantage to whoever doesn&#8217;t have serve.  So maybe you alternate serve.  This has turned from amazement into farce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is ridiculous. Nicholas Mahut and John Isner are about to go into day three of a Wimbledon match. The score in the final game is currently 59-59. No, I didn&#8217;t mistype that. 59-59. I know the rules say you have to win by two games. But at some point, don&#8217;t the authorities in charge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahut-Isner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Ny","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}