{"id":36508,"date":"2011-07-21T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T13:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36508"},"modified":"2011-08-21T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T13:27:21","slug":"tennis-with-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36508","title":{"rendered":"Tennis with benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis in Beijing isn&#8217;t just tennis. My friend reserved a court at Yifang Yuan \u9890\u65b9\u56ed\u4f53\u80b2\u5065\u5eb7\u57ce in Fangzhuang, that comes with a suite: a living room with flat panel TV, a massage room, steam room and two shower stalls. Coincident with Yao Ming&#8217;s press conference, announcing his retirement. So before we headed out to court, we watched the little Chinese giant, flanked by his puny American interpreter, fielding the questions from the reports.<\/p>\n<p>During the play, a girl came with a set of tea and fruit plate. I really loved the tea; could get used to it easily :-). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10150274475908403.332382.551603402&amp;l=b069aeddae&amp;type=1\">More pix on FB<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN99491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-36513\" title=\"tea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN99491-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN9941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-36512\" title=\"the massage bed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN9941-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN9950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-36510\" title=\"fruits\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN9950-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN9946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-36511\" title=\"DSCN9946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCN9946-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis in Beijing isn&#8217;t just tennis. My friend reserved a court at Yifang Yuan \u9890\u65b9\u56ed\u4f53\u80b2\u5065\u5eb7\u57ce in Fangzhuang, that comes with a suite: a living room with flat panel TV, a massage room, steam room and two shower stalls. Coincident with Yao Ming&#8217;s press conference, announcing his retirement. So before we headed out to court, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,46],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-36508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-tennis-2","tag-beijing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36508","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=36508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}