{"id":24684,"date":"2021-08-09T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2021-08-09T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:59:21","slug":"ron-ponder-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24684","title":{"rendered":"Ron Ponder Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51353934457\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51353934457_77cb9a002f_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend and favorite ref Ron Ponder was in town earlier this week. I hadn&#8217;t played in the morning at Seneca Park <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24669\" >since the big fiasco<\/a> with the &#8220;complainers&#8221; several weeks ago but I had to make an exception because this guy is pretty special. He was originally not arriving until 8 AM but he left his house in Oklahoma super early so he could play with us at 6 AM. This guy is the real deal and the coolest ever! <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51354906708\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51354906708_1a80e99d8f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had to wrap up and head to work well before 8 AM but at least I got to play one game with him. I am so grateful to everyone willing to get up early so they can play with me. I can&#8217;t play all morning like the retired peeps so, if people weren&#8217;t willing to play super early (before work), I wouldn&#8217;t be able to play at all. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51359197088\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51359197088_9523c1c955.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill (who you can&#8217;t really tell from this pic because of the sunshine on his head), Lonnie, and Janelle decided to come and play early also. I just love these peeps. They are so fun! It was a great morning for pickleball and probably my last morning (aka before work play) for the season. Until next time. GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and favorite ref Ron Ponder was in town earlier this week. I hadn&#8217;t played in the morning at Seneca Park since the big fiasco with the &#8220;complainers&#8221; several weeks ago but I had to make an exception because this guy is pretty special. He was originally not arriving until 8 AM but he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385],"tags":[3137,3374,3187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684"}],"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=24684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24691,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions\/24691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}