{"id":286079,"date":"2026-01-24T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=286079"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:37:13","slug":"surviving-bombs-and-hunger-to-become-a-professional-tennis-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=286079","title":{"rendered":"Surviving bombs and hunger to become a professional tennis player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis is seen as a rich sport. But many stars, including Novak Djokovic and Elina Svitolina, have forged successful careers from humble beginnings&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cvgrrpp93y3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis is seen as a rich sport. But many stars, including Novak Djokovic and Elina Svitolina, have forged successful careers from humble beginnings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17884],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286079"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=286079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}