{"id":85,"date":"2020-06-13T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2024-12-05T09:41:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T09:41:42","slug":"tennis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theibtaurisblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:contain;width:905px;height:605px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Tennis<\/em>, exhibited 1939, oil on canvas, 605 x 905mm, Private Collection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Shakespeare&#8217;s occasional attempts to portray movement, it is less successful in this respect than his painting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/afternoon-at-the-ice-rink\/\">ice skating<\/a>; the players have a statuesque rather than a dynamic quality and lack conviction. The formal attire, the grass surface, the refreshment table and the umpires chair suggest an up-market private club; from the background, I wonder if it might be the <a href=\"https:\/\/clubspark.lta.org.uk\/edgbastonarcherylawntennissociety\">Edgbaston Archery &amp; Lawn Tennis Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis, exhibited 1939, oil on canvas, 605 x 905mm, Private Collection. One of Shakespeare&#8217;s occasional attempts to portray movement, it is less successful in this respect than his painting of ice skating; the players have a statuesque rather than a dynamic quality and lack conviction. The formal attire, the grass surface, the refreshment table and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}