{"id":2738,"date":"2010-03-22T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T06:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2010-03-22T00:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T06:03:13","slug":"earl-the-pearl-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2010\/03\/22\/earl-the-pearl-strickland","title":{"rendered":"Earl &#8220;The Pearl&#8221; Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living legend, hall of famer, Earl Strickland is amazing and I love watching him win.\u00c2\u00a0 I was there to watch him win his 5th <a href=\"http:\/\/usopen9ballchampionships.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Open 9 Ball Championship<\/a>. I watched from my PC as he won the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playcsipool.com\/Events\/USBarTableChampionships.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Reno Bar Table 8-Ball<\/a> title. We&#8217;ve all watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4G0Gx8suAQs\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan<\/a> impersonation.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought he was joking about the ass weights.\u00c2\u00a0 Wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a photo of Earl over the weekend at the 2010 Allen Hopkins Super Billiard Expo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2741\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_3882_512x768c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2741\" title=\"IMG_3882_512x768c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_3882_512x768c.jpg\" alt=\"15 pounds?\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_3882_512x768c.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_3882_512x768c-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ankle weights until match time, then upstairs they go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living legend, hall of famer, Earl Strickland is amazing and I love watching him win.\u00c2\u00a0 I was there to watch him win his 5th US Open 9 Ball Championship. I watched from my PC as he won the recent Reno Bar Table 8-Ball title. We&#8217;ve all watched the Joe Rogan impersonation.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billiard-industry-news","category-tournament-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}