{"id":45733,"date":"2014-09-07T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbs_kei_nishikori_stuns_novak_djokovic_in_first_semifinal\/"},"modified":"2014-09-07T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T00:20:46","slug":"cbs_kei_nishikori_stuns_novak_djokovic_in_first_semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45733","title":{"rendered":"(CBS) Kei Nishikori stuns Novak Djokovic in first semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kei Nishikori will be the first Asian born male to compete for a Grand Slam championship Monday after he defeated top seed Novak Djokovic 6-4, 1-6, 7-6, 6-3 Saturday at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t an easy road, either, as Nishikori ran through three top 5 seeds in Milos Raonic (5), Stan Wawrinka (3), and now the No. 1 seed, Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/general\/eye-on-sports\/24697337\/us-open-kei-nishikori-stuns-novak-djokovic-in-first-semifinal\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kei Nishikori will be the first Asian born male to compete for a Grand Slam championship Monday after he defeated top seed Novak Djokovic 6-4, 1-6, 7-6, 6-3 Saturday at the US Open. It wasn&#8217;t an easy road, either, as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45733\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,337,125,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-japan","category-men","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}