{"id":13244,"date":"2009-09-23T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2009-09-23T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:27:51","slug":"noblized-sports-%e8%b4%b5%e6%97%8f%e5%8c%96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"Noblized sports \u8d35\u65cf\u5316"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Played with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=5395\">Alex the assassin<\/a> who&#8217;s game has improved a lot.  I like to tease him .. wondering which temple he&#8217;s visiting in China \ud83d\ude42 [to hone his tennis skills].  We won 2 sets to 1.<\/p>\n<p>He knew the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=11800\">Chaoyang tennis club<\/a> in Beijing well even he holes up in a podunk somewhere near Guangzhou.<br \/>\nRMB 50,000 annual due that only gives you the priority to book a court.  Each hour cost US$100 &#8211; hope I got the figures right here.<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=11861\">That&#8217;s cheap<\/a>.&#8221; compares to golf in China.<br \/>\nOne golf club charges RMB 1,000,000 (life time) membership fee and each outing would cost about RMB 2,000 &#8211; 3,000.<\/p>\n<p>His opinion is that China couldn&#8217;t produce top notch tennis\/golf athletes was due to the \u8d35\u65cf\u5316 the sports, making it prestigious and unreachable for the mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Played with Alex the assassin who&#8217;s game has improved a lot. I like to tease him .. wondering which temple he&#8217;s visiting in China \ud83d\ude42 [to hone his tennis skills]. We won 2 sets to 1. He knew the Chaoyang tennis club in Beijing well even he holes up in a podunk somewhere near Guangzhou. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}