{"id":7201,"date":"2017-11-20T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewishowes.com\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2017-11-20T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T05:01:22","slug":"i-become-1-world-thing-love-novak-djokovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewishowes.com\/podcast\/i-become-1-world-thing-love-novak-djokovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic on Becoming #1 in the World and Overcoming the Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With everything going on in the world I think it\u2019s important now more than ever to spread hope, love, and inspiration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s guest is the very definition of all of those things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Novak Djokovic grew up during two wars in Serbia. As a child, he would be woken up at 2 am to alarms going off and be forced to head to a safe place. 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