{"id":1360,"date":"2003-09-04T19:49:03","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T23:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/04\/towel-that\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T19:49:03","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T23:49:03","slug":"towel-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/04\/towel-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Towel THAT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a952'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"230\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/rainout.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"289\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"297\">\n<p>Mother Nature took a supersoaker to the US Open this week.<br \/>\n        Nearly every tennis match was washed out Monday through Wednesday. By<br \/>\n        Thursday, tournament officials were racing to see if enough play could<br \/>\n        be squeezed between the raindrops to keep the tournament from running<br \/>\n        past Sunday. The last time that happened was 1987. <\/p>\n<p>Among reporters and fans, some grow restless. Didn&#8217;t the Mets go ahead<br \/>\n        and play baseball at Shea Stadium right next door? Couldn&#8217;t the courts<br \/>\n        be covered with tented tarps the way the chaps at ever-wet Wimbledon<br \/>\n        do it? And isn&#8217;t there something more high-tech to dry the courts than<br \/>\n      an army of kneeling grounds crew playing wipeout with towels? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2003\/0905\/p02s02-usgn.html\">from<br \/>\n          the Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Nature took a supersoaker to the US Open this week. Nearly every tennis match was washed out Monday through Wednesday. By Thursday, tournament officials were racing to see if enough play could be squeezed between the raindrops to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/04\/towel-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}