{"id":57179,"date":"2017-01-25T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_an_australian_open_of_fairytales_mirjana_lucic-baronis_comeback_is_the_g\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:28:43","slug":"in_an_australian_open_of_fairytales_mirjana_lucic-baronis_comeback_is_the_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57179","title":{"rendered":"In an Australian Open of fairytales, Mirjana Lucic-Baronis comeback is the greatest of them all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the bigger names have also warmed the hearts, with Venus Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal all rolling back the years to delight fans who feared their best days were behind them.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the greatest tale of all has been the remarkable renaissance of Croatia&#8217;s Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, who has battled her way to the Australian Open semi-final at the age of 34, 19 years after her previous match win at the tournament, and 18 years since her only other grand slam semi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tennis\/2017\/01\/24\/australian-open-fairytales-mirjana-lucic-baronis-comeback-greatest\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m so happy for you,Mirjana! <br \/>What a journey, you deserve all the success!Good luck in your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\">@AustralianOpen<\/a> semifinal,half italian girl!\u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u0160\u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u0160 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TpulrQ3ZMa\">pic.twitter.com\/TpulrQ3ZMa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roberta Vinci (@roberta_vinci) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roberta_vinci\/status\/824227014404165632\">January 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the bigger names have also warmed the hearts, with Venus Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal all rolling back the years to delight fans who feared their best days were behind them. But perhaps the greatest tale of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57179\">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":[39,50,175,204,466,168,200,128,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-croatia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-sports","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57179","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=57179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}