{"id":2865,"date":"2013-11-30T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T20:03:56","slug":"milos-raonic-named-sportsnets-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/milos-raonic-named-sportsnets-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Milos Raonic named Sportsnet\u2019s Athlete of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tennis\/raonic-named-sportsnets-athlete-of-the-year\/\">http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tennis\/raonic-named-sportsnets-athlete-of-the-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Milos' comments from the article:<\/p>\n<p>\"A lot of it came from my parents\u2014having that expected from me, whether it be in tennis or at school. I remember I would come home with a low-90s, high-80s mark and my parents would say, \u201cWe want better.\u201d I was always a little timid about it, but the moment when I said, \u201cOkay, I can really do this,\u201d was when I decided to go pro in 2008. That was a week before I was supposed to show up to university\u2014I had signed a letter of intent to go to the University of Virginia\u2014but I said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m going to go the pro route.\u201d And even then, the goals and objectives were very different from what they are now. Now it\u2019s about being the best in the world, whereas in 2008, I would\u2019ve been happier with much [less].\"<\/p>\n<p>\"There are two moments that I would say are the best moments for me this year. Most of it happened on home soil in Canada, and every match I played there [I was wearing a maple leaf]. That was the Davis Cup and the Masters in Montreal. To have those moments, especially in Montreal, that had more significance because I was struggling\u2014that\u2019s when I got it back together and started finding the answers within myself.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tennis\/raonic-named-sportsnets-athlete-of-the-year\/ Milos&#8217; comments from the article: &#8220;A lot of it came from my parents\u2014having that expected from me, whether it be in tennis or at school. I remember I would come home with a low-90s, high-80s mark and my parents would say, \u201cWe want better.\u201d I was always a little timid about it, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}