{"id":27714,"date":"2014-01-31T22:28:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/nprfreshair-tennis-legend-billie-jean-king-was\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:16:47","slug":"nprfreshair-tennis-legend-billie-jean-king-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/nprfreshair-tennis-legend-billie-jean-king-was\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27714 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/nprfreshair-tennis-legend-billie-jean-king-was\/attachment\/27715\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n09z2zVZRf1qd9dz2o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nprfreshair.tumblr.com\/post\/75160816199\/tennis-legend-billie-jean-king-was-a-pioneer-for\">nprfreshair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tennis legend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/01\/31\/269423125\/pioneer-billie-jean-king-moved-the-baseline-for-womens-tennis\"><strong>Billie Jean King<\/strong><\/a> was a\u00a0pioneer\u00a0for women\u2019s sports. In addition to winning 20 Wimbledon titles, she founded the Women\u2019s Tennis Association. King is best known for her win against self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the \u201cBattle of the Sexes\u201d in 1973. \u00a0In the interview she spoke to\u00a0Fresh Air\u2019s Dave Davies about how she prepared for matches and why her physicality was so important on and off the court:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I would think about how I wanted to act. Like they teach in acting, &quot;act as if \u2026&rdquo; \u2014 it\u2019s the same thing in sports. Do you stand up straight? Do you have your body language speaking in a confident way? Because 75 percent of the time when you\u2019re on the court, you\u2019re actually not hitting a ball. And I think that\u2019s where the champions come through. So I would visualize all these different possibilities.&ldquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/10269122\/Billie-Jean-King-win-in-Battle-of-the-Sexes-was-fixed.html\">telegraph uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nprfreshair: Tennis legend Billie Jean King was a\u00a0pioneer\u00a0for women\u2019s sports. In addition to winning 20 Wimbledon titles, she founded the Women\u2019s Tennis Association. King is best known for her win against self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the \u201cBattle of the Sexes\u201d in 1973. \u00a0In the interview she spoke to\u00a0Fresh Air\u2019s Dave Davies about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7d0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27716,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27714\/revisions\/27716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}