{"id":1634,"date":"2013-06-18T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/venus-pulls-out-of-wimbledon\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T21:09:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:09:02","slug":"venus-pulls-out-of-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/venus-pulls-out-of-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus pulls out of Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon, England (Sports Network) &#8211; Five-time champion Venus Williams withdrew from Wimbledon on Tuesday due to a back injury, ending her streak of 16 consecutive appearances at the prestigious Grand Slam event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate in Wimbledon this year,&#8221; Williams wrote on her Facebook page. &#8220;I am extremely disappointed as I have always loved The Championships, but I need to take time to let my back heal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former world No. 1 Williams, who turned 33 on Monday, has appeared in eight Wimbledon finals, having also finished as a three-time runner-up. She paired with her current world No. 1 sister Serena to win a fifth women&#8217;s doubles title at the All England Club last year.<\/p>\n<p>Venus also battles Sjogren&#8217;s syndrome, which is an autoimmune disease that causes fatigue and joint pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon, England (Sports Network) &#8211; Five-time champion Venus Williams withdrew from Wimbledon on Tuesday due to a back injury, ending her streak of 16 consecutive appearances at the prestigious Grand Slam event. &#8220;Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate in Wimbledon this year,&#8221; Williams wrote on her Facebook page. &#8220;I am extremely disappointed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}