{"id":203800,"date":"2025-08-02T03:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-pressure-is-a-privilege-okutoyi-says-as-she-dons-armband-for-billie-jean-king-cup-campaign\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:46:14","slug":"kenya-pressure-is-a-privilege-okutoyi-says-as-she-dons-armband-for-billie-jean-king-cup-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-pressure-is-a-privilege-okutoyi-says-as-she-dons-armband-for-billie-jean-king-cup-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Pressure Is a Privilege,&#8217; &#8211; Okutoyi Says As She Dons Armband for Billie Jean King Cup Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Tennis superstar Angella Okutoyi says she is happy to bear the pressure of captaining Team Kenya at next week&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup in Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The youngster says the pressure is a privilege for her as it is what comes with doing what she loves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">&#8220;Of course, there is pressure but it is a good kind of pressure because all of us are doing what we love the most&#8230;it is not like the pressure of looking for money and not knowing where to find it. Like Billie Jean said, pressure is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010418.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Tennis superstar Angella Okutoyi says she is happy to bear the pressure of captaining Team Kenya at next week&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup in Namibia. The youngster says the pressure is a privilege for her as it is what comes with doing what she loves. &#8220;Of course, there is pressure but it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,26273,48758,4302,6674,52014,7702,4688,430,8946,257,24978,15578,44907,254],"class_list":["post-203800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armband","tag-billie","tag-campaign","tag-cup","tag-dons","tag-jean","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-king","tag-news","tag-okutoyi","tag-pressure","tag-privilege","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}