{"id":45758,"date":"2023-10-24T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45758"},"modified":"2023-10-29T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T18:26:30","slug":"the-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45758","title":{"rendered":"The graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45763 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5552-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45629\">So came the graduation<\/a>. We all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45742\">passed<\/a>, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5124-scaled.jpg\">with varying degrees<\/a>: one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45745\">got snorkeling only<\/a>, I got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5546-scaled.jpg\">the scuba diver<\/a>, Ralph got his instructor&#8217;s certificate after 200 dives under his belt &#8211; congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a dive social, coincides with the halloween party. Some mates baked a cake and cookies, pizza ordered, I brought two bottles red wine &#8211; no one touched it except me lol. &#8230; no one drinks wine in a dive bar &#8230; ha ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting other divers from previous classes is great &#8211; you need a buddy to dive after all. If you&#8217;ve no one to dive with, you&#8217;ll have to hire a dive master. Unless you&#8217;re on a private boat.<\/p>\n<p>As door prizes, I won the very good looking t shirt for wearing my face mask.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DateStamper_1138-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DateStamper_1138-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5553-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_5560-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So came the graduation. We all passed, just with varying degrees: one got snorkeling only, I got the scuba diver, Ralph got his instructor&#8217;s certificate after 200 dives under his belt &#8211; congratulations. It&#8217;s a dive social, coincides with the halloween party. Some mates baked a cake and cookies, pizza ordered, I brought two bottles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba-diving-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45758","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}