{"id":23847,"date":"2021-03-09T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23847"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:37:42","slug":"the-pickleball-librarian-visits-wichita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23847","title":{"rendered":"The Pickleball Librarian Visits Wichita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally had the opportunity to meet one of the famous pickleball personalities I&#8217;ve been following on social media. Andrew Evans, aka the Pickleball Librarian, and his friend Colleen Mendoza came to visit Wichita on his birthday weekend. Chicken N Pickle was completely booked that day but I was able to get us (Andrew, Colleen, and I) a couple of hours of court time at Riverside and then scheduled open play at Seneca Park immediately after. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50986059808\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50986059808_d556a517f3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I invited Dave New to be my mixed partner that day since we are playing together in the <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23802\" >Chicken N Pickle mixed competitive league this session<\/a>. We played several games (best 2 out of 3 games to 11 is my preferred format) and I got to play at least twice with Dave, Andrew, and Colleen. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51010668766\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51010668766_f5a5fd9ff8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After mixed at Riverside, Andrew, Colleen, and I went to Seneca Park for open play. I was amazed at how many people came out considering how windy it was that day. I think we had enough players for three courts and some spares. <\/p>\n<p>It was great to finally meet the famed Pickleball Librarian and we had a lot of fun playing. I look forward to playing with him again on his next visit. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPickleballLibrarian%2Fvideos%2F1401186636907515%2F&#038;width=500&#038;show_text=false&#038;appId=162933833794177&#038;height=282\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video we made that day about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playtimescheduler.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Playtime Scheduler<\/a>. As you can tell, it was very windy that day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally had the opportunity to meet one of the famous pickleball personalities I&#8217;ve been following on social media. Andrew Evans, aka the Pickleball Librarian, and his friend Colleen Mendoza came to visit Wichita on his birthday weekend. Chicken N Pickle was completely booked that day but I was able to get us (Andrew, Colleen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2304],"tags":[3137,3305,3306,3187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847"}],"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=23847"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23856,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847\/revisions\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}