{"id":3867,"date":"2017-11-15T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whistleblowingservice.com.au\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2017-11-15T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:12:56","slug":"jelena-dokic-road-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/2017\/11\/15\/jelena-dokic-road-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelena Dokic, Prodigy with no way out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.86&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Jelena Dokic has opened up about her life as a tennis star. Being at the top of her game did not make her immune from abuse and highlights the difficult relationship and responsibility between parents, siblings, sporting administrators, event organisers, club administrators and the rights of a child.<\/p>\n<p>While many observed the conduct of Jelena&#8217;s father &#8220;No one ever asked: how far does this go? What else does he do?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jelena&#8217;s book brings into stark relief the what might be considered &#8220;acceptable&#8221; for elite performance and glossed over by others because he was Jelena&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/nov\/15\/i-dont-want-pity-jelena-dokic-sidesteps-blame-game-to-find-own-voice\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Jelena Dokic has opened up about her life as a tennis star. Being at the top of her game did not make her immune from abuse and highlights the difficult relationship and responsibility between parents, siblings, sporting administrators, event organisers, club administrators and the rights of a child. While many observed the conduct of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>Jelena Dokic has opened up about her life as a tennis star. Being at the top of her game did not make her immune from abuse and highlights the difficult relationship and responsibility between parents, siblings, sporting administrators, event organisers, club administrators and the rights of a child.<\/p><p>While many observed the conduct of Jelena's father \"No one ever asked: how far does this go? What else does he do?\u201d.<\/p><p>Jelena's book brings into stark relief the what might be considered \"acceptable\" for elite performance and glossed over by others because becuase he was Jelena's father<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/nov\/15\/i-dont-want-pity-jelena-dokic-sidesteps-blame-game-to-find-own-voice\">See more<\/a><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-jelena-dokic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ball_on_court.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}