{"id":2346,"date":"2016-01-27T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:25:41","slug":"born-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2016\/01\/born-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Born to Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some tennis players are paid to lose by gamblers. Is this part of a dream? Npt being a good tennis player myself, I can imagine nothing easier than losing a tennis match. To then be able to claim that I only lost because I was paid to, and if I really wanted I could have won it, would be the ultimate self justifying ego trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some tennis players are paid to lose by gamblers. Is this part of a dream? Npt being a good tennis player myself, I can imagine nothing easier than losing a tennis match. 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