{"id":2368,"date":"2008-10-13T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2011-05-03T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T01:42:12","slug":"sammys-words-on-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Sammy&#8217;s words on badminton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In explaining his design for the tee shirt for the past weekend&#8217;s inter-club tourney, Sam wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The theme if the idea is &#8220;Birdies Symphony&#8221; or &#8220;Dancing Birdies&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\nI got the idea as I recalled the very first time I walked into AES for my very first badminton session&#8230;<br \/>\nI heard some very loud sound of the rackets pounding the shuttlecocks. It turned out to be Garry who had been punishing those poor birdies. I&#8217;d never knew that badminton could have those kind of &#8220;sound effects&#8221; before then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As I moved on my badminton path, I found that it was actually kind of rhythmic to &#8220;hear&#8221; badminton in session. There are loud drumming like heavy smashes; there are like &#8216;cling&#8217; sounds like the sounds of a harp when someone hits a light drop. It is always a mix of sounds of all kinds in different rhythms. When there are many courts playing at the same time, it&#8217;s like a symphony. That is what got me the idea to design the tee shirt for our tournament. Didn&#8217;t you enjoy the symphonic day last Saturday?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.. .. Sorry that I missed the tourney .. well written Sam .. .. The birdie can travel at 200 miles per hour, faster than a tennis ball. Once my left hand was hit by it and got bruise. I was too chicken to say anything. Didn&#8217;t want the boys think that I&#8217;m a sissy. Then one day I told this to a doctor, he confirmed that I wasn&#8217;t a crying baby. Indeed the little white birdie causes bruises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In explaining his design for the tee shirt for the past weekend&#8217;s inter-club tourney, Sam wrote: The theme if the idea is &#8220;Birdies Symphony&#8221; or &#8220;Dancing Birdies&#8221;&#8230; I got the idea as I recalled the very first time I walked into AES for my very first badminton session&#8230; I heard some very loud sound of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badminton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}