{"id":35112,"date":"2015-02-01T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=35112"},"modified":"2015-02-16T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:11:26","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-love-meaning-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-love-meaning-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Does love mean anything to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/portable-table-tennis-set?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20406_pingpong_set-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Portable Table Tennis Set | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20406_pingpong_set-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20406_pingpong_set-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20406_pingpong_set-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If so, then you are probably a tennis player. And in that case, you also know that tennis has a scoring system that is unique among sports. Perhaps most familiar is the fact that zero points is known as Love. There are various theories about the origin of that strange application of the word, but they all can be traced back to France where the game itself originated. It is possible, for example, that 16th century players colloquially referred to 0\u00a0as \u201cthe egg\u201d because of its shape. That\u2019s \u201cl\u2019oeuf\u201d in French, which would later be Anglicized to be pronounced \u201clove.\u201d Other people think it\u2019s more likely that the term derives from a period idiom about playing \u201cfor the love of the game,\u201d which meant that someone was playing without money wagered on the outcome. Whatever the case, the terminology has made tennis the perfect game for Valentine\u2019s Day, because even if you can\u2019t score you\u2019ve still got Love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/portable-table-tennis-set?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Portable Table Tennis Set, $39.95<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If so, then you are probably a tennis player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":35117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}