{"id":187914,"date":"2019-12-26T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=187914"},"modified":"2019-12-26T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:58:59","slug":"ap-sports-story-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=187914","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Sports Story of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16530\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tigerwoods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"133\" \/>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Tiger Woods\u2019 victory at the Masters might not have been the most important sports story of 2019. It was certainly one of the most uplifting.<\/p>\n<p>Voters chose Woods\u2019 dramatic comeback at Augusta National as The Associated Press sports story of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in second was the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team\u2019s victory at the World Cup. The monthlong competition combined a stirring victory with captain Megan Rapinoe\u2019s outspoken push for her team to earn as much as the less successful American men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>It was a year filled with outside-the-lines tensions in sports. But Woods winning the Masters after years of injury and personal problems was a crowd pleaser and took the top honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Tiger Woods\u2019 victory at the Masters might not have been the most important sports story of 2019. It was certainly one of the most uplifting. Voters chose Woods\u2019 dramatic comeback at Augusta National as The Associated Press sports story of the year. Coming in second was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187917,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187914\/revisions\/187917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}