{"id":635,"date":"2007-07-24T23:30:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/07\/24\/little-woman\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T23:30:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T03:30:23","slug":"little-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Little woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Little Princess took a week off, and started her camp for two more weeks at the USTA.\u00a0 Only 3 hours a day.\u00a0 She got bit excited, anxious.\u00a0 Playing in the shadow of the Center Court at Flushing Meadow is an experience.\u00a0 But the teaching staff is very young, the student\/coach ratio is high, hence the half price tag.\u00a0 On the way home,\u00a0she said that sooner or later, she’ll have to\u00a0take a camp at the USTA .. .. but next year she’d rather\u00a0have it at Port Washington if nowhere else is better.\u00a0 She commented off handedly that most kids there are Hunter students.\u00a0 Frank’s daughter is attending Hunter, and both his kids are there too.\u00a0 First thought came to my mind was, how do they go to school?\u00a0 She laughed, “Mom, I’m sure they take bus or subway .. ”\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>“By themselves?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Ya, Mom, by themselves. .. that’s how city kids live.. .. without their parents following around .. ..”\u00a0 A pause, then she said quietly, “I knew you’d stay for the first day.” It rained yesterday, so we didn’t go.\u00a0 At that moment, I felt little naked and\u00a0vulnerable, she’s no longer a little wa wa\u00a0baby.\u00a0 Do I still treat her as a baby?\u00a0 Of course you’re not Mom!\u00a0 Do I follow you around too much?\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 She assured me.\u00a0 “I know you want to know what’s going on … it’s great that you know what’s going on in the world …”\u00a0 Last time we were in the city, downtown, saw few gay couples.\u00a0 I said so, as matter of fact, we don’t see many in the burb.\u00a0 She replied, “Mom, I notice that, of course .. .. I’m not that oblivious to the world around me.”\u00a0 Oblivious?\u00a0 Gosh, I just learned a new\u00a0vocabulary, now I need to learn how to pronounce it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little Princess took a week off, and started her camp for two more weeks at the USTA.\u00a0 Only 3 hours a day.\u00a0 She got bit excited, anxious.\u00a0 Playing in the shadow of the Center Court at Flushing Meadow is an experience.\u00a0 But the teaching staff is very young, the student\/coach ratio is high, hence the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saga","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}