{"id":3785,"date":"2009-01-26T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2009-01-26T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:10:22","slug":"happy-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chinese New Year, the Niu Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS\">The Year of Ox, happy \u725b Niu Year.<\/p>\n<p>I played 3 sets, and lost them all.  The guys, all the bad boys just won&#8217;t give me a break.  Oh boy.  \ud83d\ude42 Great games guys .. Thanks.  The 4th set we were on serve but unfortunately time ran out.  <\/p>\n<p>Kids had mid term (why does the school have the mid term on the Chinese New Year?) and came home early.  Pumpkin said with a poker face,<br \/>\n&#8220;So Mom, you got up at 6 .. &#8221;  Needn&#8217;t to say more.<\/p>\n<p>On the way out of the tennis center, few of us were talking about a regular game on a weekday AM at da USTA.  I was too quick to say yes.  My right ankle wasn&#8217;t 100% since 12\/5 at the parking lot at the pool.  My forehand was tender.  I only served 1 set.  Last Friday I served for the entire 2 hours.  Alex and I against Andy and Kevin.  We did just fine. .. .. IF I want to play the full summer season, I probably best to rest bit more?  No?  Not playing hurts even more.  \u70e7\u5305 .. I could always go to swim !!  But somehow, it differs from tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Two Fridays ago, I visited a tui na &#8211; massage &#8211; Mr. Sun whom I visited few times prior.  Telling the gentleman that here and there hurt and I have game to play .. .. .. so he asked if it&#8217;s a tourney, tournament.<br \/>\n&#8220;No, it isn&#8217;t.  It&#8217;s just a regular game.&#8221;<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think a sane person could or would understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Year of Ox, happy \u725b Niu Year. I played 3 sets, and lost them all. The guys, all the bad boys just won&#8217;t give me a break. Oh boy. \ud83d\ude42 Great games guys .. Thanks. The 4th set we were on serve but unfortunately time ran out. Kids had mid term (why does the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","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=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}