{"id":24169,"date":"2021-01-13T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/rip-tennis-writer-tom-perrotta#id28807"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:19:00","slug":"rip-the-great-tennis-writer-tom-perrotta-dead-at-44-from-brain-cancer-a-remembrance-from-peter-bodo-and-many-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/rip-the-great-tennis-writer-tom-perrotta-dead-at-44-from-brain-cancer-a-remembrance-from-peter-bodo-and-many-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, the great tennis writer Tom Perrotta, dead at 44 from brain cancer. A remembrance from Peter Bodo and many colleagues."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For four years, you periodically met, talked about the progress of the disease, your families, Roger Federer. Parting, you hugged, muttering &ldquo;I love you, man&rdquo; as you fought back tears. Now even that melancholy exercise is denied.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2021\/01\/farewell-neighborhood-baby-remembering-tom-perrotta\/92420\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Tennis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/rip-tennis-writer-tom-perrotta\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        For four years, you periodically met, talked about the progress of the disease, your families, Roger Federer. Parting, you hugged, muttering &ldquo;I love you, man&rdquo; as you fought back tears. Now even that melancholy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24170,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24169\/revisions\/24170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}