{"id":1182,"date":"2013-03-06T02:47:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T07:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2013-03-06T03:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T08:10:39","slug":"indian-wells-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/indian-wells-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Wells &#8211; Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To keep it brief (because it&#8217;s bed time), today was the first day we got to see tennis. Free admission. It was the end of women&#8217;s qualifying (WTA) and almost the end of men&#8217;s qualifying (ATP) rounds.<\/p>\n<p>We saw some good hard hitting, the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and some cool practice sessions of the players.<\/p>\n<p>Ten feet away, those 130 mph serves and topspin ground strokes are just sick!<\/p>\n<p>We also got to watch the ATP draw picked (from a big open tennis ball). Interesting to see how they split up the top seeds so they don&#8217;t play each other in the early rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, just hung out and enjoyed some free tennis. Thursday will be more official (and all day).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130305-235402.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130305-235402.jpg\" alt=\"20130305-235402.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130305-235423.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130305-235423.jpg\" alt=\"20130305-235423.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130305-235604.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130305-235604.jpg\" alt=\"20130305-235604.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130306-000236.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130306-000236.jpg\" alt=\"20130306-000236.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep it brief (because it&#8217;s bed time), today was the first day we got to see tennis. Free admission. It was the end of women&#8217;s qualifying (WTA) and almost the end of men&#8217;s qualifying (ATP) rounds. We saw some good hard hitting, the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and some cool practice sessions of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,4],"tags":[148,147,145,149],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-rv-trip","category-travel","tag-atp","tag-indian-wells-tennis-gardens","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}