{"id":4424,"date":"2009-01-20T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2009-01-20T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:11:58","slug":"carlsbads-rod-laver-honored-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4424","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad&#8217;s Rod Laver Honored In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"430\" height=\"305\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wHaN2h21ANs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wHaN2h21ANs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"430\" height=\"305\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Tennis legend and <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> resident <strong>Rod Laver<\/strong> will be traveling to Australia this week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his second grand slam tennis win, according to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5h1E5RSJAw4ZnMWWPR75iImaUKO2Q\" target=\"_blank\">The Canadian Press<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hard to believe, but it&#8217;s been four decades since the slightly built, red-haired Australian known as &#8220;Rocket&#8221; won the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same year. . . . The four men he beat with his powerful left arm in his 1969 Grand Slam, Spaniard <strong>Andres Gimeno<\/strong> and fellow Aussies <strong>Ken Rosewall<\/strong>, <strong>John Newcombe<\/strong> and <strong>Tony Roche<\/strong>, are scheduled to join Laver at a legends lunch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just always loved the man&#8217;s shoes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5h1E5RSJAw4ZnMWWPR75iImaUKO2Q\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend and Carlsbadistan resident Rod Laver will be traveling to Australia this week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his second grand slam tennis win, according to a story in The Canadian Press. Hard to believe, but it&#8217;s been four decades since the slightly built, red-haired Australian known as &#8220;Rocket&#8221; won the Australian Open, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}