{"id":613,"date":"2007-07-12T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T14:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2007-07-12T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T14:40:21","slug":"venus-in-for-acura-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Venus In For Acura Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/venus140.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/venus140.jpg','popup','width=140,height=199,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/venus140-tm.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Venus140\" \/><\/a>All three times <strong>Venus Williams<\/strong> has played in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acuraclassic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acura Classic<\/a><\/strong> at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacosta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">La Costa Resort &#38; Spa<\/a><\/strong> she has won. Now, the 2007 <strong>Wimbledon<\/strong> champion has announced that she will play (along with her sister <strong>Serena<\/strong>) in the Acura.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been a few years since I&#8217;ve played in San Diego, and I am proud to have won the tournament the last three times I played it,&#8221; Venus told tournament officials. &#8220;In some way, I feel like I&#8217;m returning as defending champion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is still time to get tickets, we suggest you get on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20070712-9999-1s12venus.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All three times Venus Williams has played in the Acura Classic at the La Costa Resort &#38; Spa she has won. Now, the 2007 Wimbledon champion has announced that she will play (along with her sister Serena) in the Acura. It&#8217;s been a few years since I&#8217;ve played in San Diego, and I am proud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}