{"id":37659,"date":"2013-03-01T02:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T02:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37659"},"modified":"2013-03-10T03:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:26:34","slug":"37659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37659","title":{"rendered":"The hand paddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_37658\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5188-1121am.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37658\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37658\" alt=\"Thursday, 2\/28\/2013 at 11:21am\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5188-1121am-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5188-1121am-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5188-1121am-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thursday, 2\/28\/2013 @ 11:21am<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37730\">parking lot<\/a> at Great Neck&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37401\">Equinox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A nice sunny day, I walked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37401\">to the club<\/a>. The parking there is always hectic. At near noon, this is considered mild. One of the chatters in the locker room is on parking. A few complained:<br \/>\n&#8220;What&#8217;s the point of calling me to join when the parking is so difficult?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m paying so much I don&#8217;t want to park across the street&#8221; .. don&#8217;t know there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37730\">parking lot<\/a> across the street, unless they&#8217;re buying the lot by the park.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s annoying that I need to spend more time parking than driving there.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37661\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37661\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37661\" alt=\"Feb 27, 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5170-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5170-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5170-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feb 27, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday I shared the middle lane with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37640\">mandarin ducks<\/a>. They were there when I arrived. Yes, the bald one asked me to swim elsewhere. Funny, they never wear caps. Yes, there was overly aggressive passes; and soon they began to use the hand paddles\/swim hand fins, which was pretty scary, given the large size.<br \/>\nShould they ban the hand paddle altogether?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parking lot at Great Neck&#8217;s Equinox. A nice sunny day, I walked to the club. The parking there is always hectic. At near noon, this is considered mild. One of the chatters in the locker room is on parking. A few complained: &#8220;What&#8217;s the point of calling me to join when the parking is [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37659","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=37659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}