{"id":2381,"date":"2018-08-17T17:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/74-mexican-tennis\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:56:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:03","slug":"74-mexican-tennis","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/74-mexican-tennis\/","title":{"raw":"74. <i>Mexican Tennis<\/i>.","rendered":"74. <i>Mexican Tennis<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/162\" target=\"new\">144<\/a><\/span> <p>The Mexicans had one singular law in their play with the ball. In the walls of the court where they played, certain <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/163\" target=\"new\">145<\/a><\/span>stones like mill-stones were fixed, with a hole in the middle, just large enough to let the ball pass through; and whoever drove it through, which required great skill, and was, of course, rarely effected, won the cloaks of the lookers-on. They, therefore, took to their heels to save their cloaks, and others pursued to catch them, which was a new source of amusement.<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/162\" target=\"new\">144<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The Mexicans had one singular law in their play with the ball. In the walls of the court where they played, certain <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/163\" target=\"new\">145<\/a><\/span>stones like mill-stones were fixed, with a hole in the middle, just large enough to let the ball pass through; and whoever drove it through, which required great skill, and was, of course, rarely effected, won the cloaks of the lookers-on. They, therefore, took to their heels to save their cloaks, and others pursued to catch them, which was a new source of amusement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":74,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2381","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2381\/revisions\/2382"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2381\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}