{"id":94,"date":"2007-04-22T23:01:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T03:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-04-22T23:01:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T03:01:57","slug":"brotherly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Brotherly love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig is kind of coach who takes his coaching rather seriously: 15 minutes into the 1-hr lesson, two brothers showed up (the coach\/student ratio is 1:4).\u00a0
\n“How nice to see you after 2 months!\u00a0 Or was it 3 months?”\u00a0 Craig exclaimed.\u00a0
\nThe taller one\u00a0couldn’t be more than 10 years old, and both of them are demanding and\u00a0vocal, dressed with oversized t-shirts and long pants.\u00a0 Oddly, they both have the figure as a bit of out of shape 50-year old.\u00a0\u00a0The younger one said he didn’t like his racket and wanted to use Craig’s.\u00a0
\nHe got his wish.\u00a0
\nWhen the kid complained again,\u00a0Craig told him …
\n“It’s not the racket, it’s the hand holding it…” –\u00a0We teased Waldo<\/a> all the time that he should buy a left hand racket, lol\u00a0 or better yet, buy a game \ud83d\ude42 … – <\/p>\n

The older one complained that he can’t hit back hand.\u00a0
\n“Well, then you should have\u00a0come often, so I can teach you.”\u00a0 Craig told him. The brothers can’t play.\u00a0 But apparently Craig took it perhaps as an insult that his students didn’t come.\u00a0\u00a0
\nMany coaches would have been happy or careless\u00a0that 2 of his\u00a0lousy students absent for a long period of time.\u00a0\u00a0As soon as they walked in, Craig whispered to me ..
\n“You’ll enjoy this…”\u00a0
\nI did.\u00a0
\nThe brothers appear to be brat, but they were really sweet to each other.\u00a0 The younger one fall, and the older one picked him up and dusted him off.\u00a0 They each told Pumpkin when one of them is teamed up with her ‘to hit the ball to his bro …” I\u00a0cheered<\/font><\/a><\/span> for all of them.\u00a0\u00a0
\nWhen it was 4:4 and the bros were in the same team, they would each shout to\u00a0other,
\n‘Are\u00a0we losing?’\u00a0
\n“4:4” .. Craig repeated.\u00a0
\n“Are we losing?” they\u00a0shouted again.\u00a0
\nAnother kid AJ said across the court,
\n“It’s 4:4”\u00a0
\n“So we’re winning then?” The older bro insisted ..
\nLOL …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig is kind of coach who takes his coaching rather seriously: 15 minutes into the 1-hr lesson, two brothers showed up (the coach\/student ratio is 1:4).\u00a0 “How nice to see you after 2 months!\u00a0 Or was it 3 months?”\u00a0 Craig exclaimed.\u00a0 The taller one\u00a0couldn’t be more than 10 years old, and both of them are […]<\/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-94","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\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}