{"id":23578,"date":"2021-01-16T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T19:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23578"},"modified":"2021-01-15T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:47:56","slug":"jimmys-umpteenth-going-away-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23578","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy&#8217;s Umpteenth Going Away Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50798398937\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50798398937_e9424ff8b7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a surprise going away pickleball party for Jimmy at <a href=\"https:\/\/chickennpickle.com\/wichita\/\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken N Pickle<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. It was like his umpteenth one. Since he&#8217;d already had a few going away parties, I really think he was surprised by this one.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50798398932\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50798398932_a28ca8ac38.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really going to miss this guy. I have learned so much from him and our 5 AM pickleball drills this past year. Jimmy always gave me good, constructive feedback along with encouraging words like, \u201cYou are most improved player and you have good hustle.\u201d He calls me a hustler because I somehow manage to con better players into playing rec games with me. I\u2019ll be like, \u201cHey, so and so played with us the other day.\u201d And he\u2019d reply, \u201cYou\u2019re a hustler!\u201d And start laughing. Jimmy opened my eyes to impregnable Wichita pickleball pyramid and I\u2019ve been trying to make my way up ever since. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50797531543\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50797531543_ec072ff24a.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will really miss Jimmy \u2014- his guidance and free pickleball drills (LOL), his laugh, his very distracting grunts and ninja moves on the pickleball court, and his totally random cookouts at Seneca Park (among other things). I wish him the best of luck in El Paso, Jimmy. Until we play again&#8230; I\u2019m gonna keep on hustlin\u2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a surprise going away pickleball party for Jimmy at Chicken N Pickle a couple of weeks ago. It was like his umpteenth one. Since he&#8217;d already had a few going away parties, I really think he was surprised by this one. I&#8217;m really going to miss this guy. I have learned so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340],"tags":[3286,191,3137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23581,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions\/23581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}