{"id":98880971,"date":"2011-08-29T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/us-open-begins-on-time-following-minimal-damage-from-hurricane-irene\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:13:40","slug":"us-open-begins-on-time-following-minimal-damage-from-hurricane-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/us-open-begins-on-time-following-minimal-damage-from-hurricane-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open Begins on Time Following Minimal Damage from Hurricane Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAfter a weekend full of worry, US Open tennis officially kicked off right on schedule in New York City Monday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith the National Tennis Center in Corona Park, Queens reported only &ldquo;minimal&rdquo; damage from the Hurricane Irene, Open officials decided to announce, &ldquo;game on!&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe world&rsquo;s best players began making their way to New York last week but were unable to practice for much of the weekend due to the adverse weather conditions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US Open has been played in New York City since 1978 and usually starts during the last full week of August. The two-week-long tournament draws thousands of tennis fans to Queens each year and is the final stop on the Grand Slam tournament circuit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-08-28\/u-s-open-tennis-will-start-on-time-after-minimal-storm-damage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend full of worry, US Open tennis officially kicked off right on schedule in New York City Monday morning. &nbsp; With the National Tennis Center in Corona Park, Queens reported only &ldquo;minimal&rdquo; damage from the Hurricane Irene, Open officials decided to announce, &ldquo;game on!&rdquo; &nbsp; The world&rsquo;s best players began making their way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}