{"id":4924,"date":"2009-03-05T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2011-12-25T01:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:07:18","slug":"san-francisco-loses-at-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=4924","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Loses at Badminton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123612216604423431.html\">Outmatched<\/a> by an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/2009\/03\/03\/never-underestimate-an-old-gal\/\">86-Year-Old<\/a>!  Look at that. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been playing badminton since last December when I twisted my right ankle at the parking lot of the pool.  Now although I&#8217;m good enough to play tennis, but I&#8217;m trying to conserve, so no badminton for the time being.  Ouuuuch ..  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; In a time when governments across the country are raising every manner of fee to battle nasty budget deficits, one 86-year-old man here drew the line.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Leong decided to fight City Hall over badminton. And, soon, City Hall found it too hard to fight Ed Leong.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outmatched by an 86-Year-Old! Look at that. I haven&#8217;t been playing badminton since last December when I twisted my right ankle at the parking lot of the pool. Now although I&#8217;m good enough to play tennis, but I&#8217;m trying to conserve, so no badminton for the time being. Ouuuuch .. SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badminton","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}