{"id":166162841,"date":"2012-11-13T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squashword.com\/national-stereotypes"},"modified":"2012-11-13T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:35:00","slug":"national-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=166162841","title":{"rendered":"National Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, Jamie Crombie was a controversial figure. Born in Vermont, he was raised in Calgary and turned pro while at the University of Western Ontario. But in 2002 he tried to play in the SL Green and thus sparked a nasty little tempest.<\/p>\n<p>In November 1994 a young Michael Bamberger, destined to become known not just for his golf writing but for his blurb of <em>Run to the Roar<\/em>, wrote a hilarious, fascinating profile of Crombie in the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>. Great stories of tournaments in Colombia, his housemates in Toronto and his evaluations of his billet&#8217;s goodbyes.<\/p>\n<p>Bamberger has Crombie pegging the players on the PSA tour: the Germans are precise&mdash;when is the practice time? Italians take things personally. The Finns are big gamblers. The Brits are complainers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is that the case today, exactly eighteen years later?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/1994-11-13\/sports\/25869315_1_professional-squash-jamie-crombie-nightmare\">http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/1994-11-13\/sports\/25869315_1_professional-squash-j&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, Jamie Crombie was a controversial figure. Born in Vermont, he was raised in Calgary and turned pro while at the University of Western Ontario. But in 2002 he tried to play in the SL Green and thus sparked a nasty little tempest. In &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166162841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166162841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166162841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166162841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166162841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166162841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166162841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}