{"id":966,"date":"2007-10-04T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/10\/04\/a-shutout-home-opener\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:25:18","slug":"a-shutout-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"A shutout home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The home opener was a shutout event.\u00a0 Pumpkin won her doubles 6:2, the happy duo walked off giggling.\u00a0 They both played sharp and hard.\u00a0 They giggled at\u00a0start, either their way to deal with nervousness or just doubles has more fun – your partner carries half the pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n

One parent suggested that we need to do a fund raising for new courts.\u00a0\u00a0Gosh, you have to see to believe it: the courts look like 3rd world!\u00a0 Few years ago I took them to visit my middle\/high school in Beijing, they were impressed, ‘wow, mom, this is<\/em>\u00a0 your school?’\u00a0 The rose-tinted\u00a0track and field, tranquil blueish 50 meter indoor pool .. .. were really world class.\u00a0 Superficial?\u00a0\u00a0What’s going on inside the classrooms are not easy to measure..\u00a0\u00a0China will beat us back to the moon<\/a>, said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Ran into few mothers, some I played with long time ago, some I knew but haven’t seen for few years.\u00a0 One Korean mom chatted me up – rather one sided – telling me her 12th grade son is doing very well, busy, participate in chamber music – playing violin, golf and something else; kept on saying that he has to do very well academically .. he wants to go to Brown pre med .. There wasn’t a room for my participation, :).\u00a0 Is Brown offering 6-year BS\/MD program?\u00a0 She looked at me blankly.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Maybe the ivy leagues have more than enough applicants, they don’t have to come up with new gimmick to compete for the brightest.\u00a0 Considering the long internship many fields required, the 6-year combo is a good\u00a0way to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The home opener was a shutout event.\u00a0 Pumpkin won her doubles 6:2, the happy duo walked off giggling.\u00a0 They both played sharp and hard.\u00a0 They giggled at\u00a0start, either their way to deal with nervousness or just doubles has more fun – your partner carries half the pressure. One parent suggested that we need […]<\/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-966","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\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}