{"id":976,"date":"2008-06-18T07:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=976"},"modified":"2008-06-18T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:49:07","slug":"being-rocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/18\/being-rocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Rocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[At Golf&#8217;s U.S. Open, June 12-15, 2008, at Torrey Pines Gold Course in San Diego California, 45 year-old Rocco Mediate was played to a tie by struggling golf phenomenon Tiger Woods, who was recovering from knee surgery. On June 16, they tied at the end of the tie-breaking 18 holes, and the match ended with a determined Woods winning in a sudden-death extra hole. Mediate had captured the crowd with his positive outlook; and while he was certainly trying to win, he was just happy to be there.]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Implausible defined golf&#8217;s U.S. Open<br \/>\nthat low-ranked Rocco could be so sublime<br \/>\nfor eighteen holes he played as he was hoping<br \/>\nwhen Mediate faced Woods at Torrey Pines.<\/p>\n<p>Now Woods, the Number One in all the world<br \/>\nwas hacking balls and straying off the course<br \/>\nhis knee&#8217;s third surgery left him playing hurt<br \/>\nwithout incredible putts he would be worse.<\/p>\n<p>But Rocco, playing like a miracle man<br \/>\nwas holding on and often out in front<br \/>\nyet to enjoy the moment was his plan<br \/>\nto win of course or prove he&#8217;s not a stunt.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t beat Woods, and yet he really won:<br \/>\nrespect and hope and playing with Woods and fun.<\/p>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[At Golf&#8217;s U.S. Open, June 12-15, 2008, at Torrey Pines Gold Course in San Diego California, 45 year-old Rocco Mediate was played to a tie by struggling golf phenomenon Tiger Woods, who was recovering from knee surgery. On June 16, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/18\/being-rocco\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[507,384,510,145,506,509,508],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-sonnets","tag-golf","tag-happiness","tag-rocco-mediate","tag-social-commentary","tag-sports","tag-tiger-woods","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}