{"id":30857,"date":"2022-05-26T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/sally-rooney-was-the-number-one-competitive-debater-in-europe#id31892"},"modified":"2022-05-26T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:45:00","slug":"from-2015-novelist-sally-rooney-recalls-when-she-was-the-number-one-competitive-debater-on-the-continent-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/from-2015-novelist-sally-rooney-recalls-when-she-was-the-number-one-competitive-debater-on-the-continent-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"From 2015, novelist Sally Rooney recalls when she was \u201cthe number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Success doesn&rsquo;t come from within; it&rsquo;s given to you by other people, and other people can take it away. In part, this is why I stopped competing. I didn&rsquo;t want to give up the feeling of flow, that perfect, self-eliminating focus, but I didn&rsquo;t want to perform it for points any more.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/thedublinreview.com\/article\/even-if-you-beat-me\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Dublin Review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/sally-rooney-was-the-number-one-competitive-debater-in-europe\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Success doesn&rsquo;t come from within; it&rsquo;s given to you by other people, and other people can take it away. In part, this is why I stopped competing. I didn&rsquo;t want to give up the feeling of flow, that perfec&#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-30857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857","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=30857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30858,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}