{"id":24257,"date":"2021-06-11T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24257"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:54:48","slug":"fun-times-with-pickleball-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24257","title":{"rendered":"Fun Times with Pickleball Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51216804074\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51216804074_a51d673e8c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bunch of us went to lunch after pickleball play on Memorial Day. Debbie had a group playing at Riverside Tennis Center, while Kimberly, Tiffany, Karen and I played at Nahola. However, we all got together at the downtown Old Chicago after. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51222351319\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51222351319_eb2898fe68_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some days later I snapped this pic of Dan Leddy (in red), Craig Clark (middle), and Lonnie Lollar (right) at Chicken N Pickle. These guys are so fun! <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51223820327\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51223820327_c51d0fb371_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s me with Michael, showing off our new Chicken N Pickle &#8220;Pride Month&#8221; shirts. I love how soft this shirt is! <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51228478889\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51228478889_6b276f465d_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here are some pictures that I took at the Port of Wichita on Saturday when a bunch of pickleball peeps got together for an &#8220;Epic&#8221; night there. Epic is the name of the cover band performing that night.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51228784720\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51228784720_1fb11fe48d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donnie with his ladies. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51228478924\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51228478924_f3f7c4f229.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Vicky, Robert and Janelle in the background. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51227706371\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51227706371_6a6449c453_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert and Bruce.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51227004992\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51227004992_e578577275_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave and Debbie.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51228478829\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51228478829_aff50bfeda_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit goes to Debbie for reserving a bunch of tables for us on the dance floor.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51228835767\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51228835767_5eddc7bb34_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then this was the next day at Seneca Park. It was a crazy day. I started by playing at Edgemoor at 6 AM, then went to Seneca Park before going to Nahola for the noon open play. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve played this much pickleball and spend so much time with my pickleball buddies in one weekend. I love it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of us went to lunch after pickleball play on Memorial Day. Debbie had a group playing at Riverside Tennis Center, while Kimberly, Tiffany, Karen and I played at Nahola. However, we all got together at the downtown Old Chicago after. Some days later I snapped this pic of Dan Leddy (in red), Craig [&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":[191,3137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257"}],"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=24257"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24264,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions\/24264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}