{"id":26825,"date":"2022-11-08T11:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=26825"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:26:54","slug":"pickleball-lawrence-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=26825","title":{"rendered":"Pickleball Lawrence Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/52449562784\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52449562784_848a0f1262.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t been able to set up any <a href=\"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=26337\" >DUPR match sessions<\/a> in a while because of my crazy tournament schedule. There was like a six week stretch around September-October that I was out of town every weekend. Anyway, I finally got a break so when Steve Berndsen from Pickleball Lawrence reached out and asked if he could visit and check out a DUPR session, it worked out that I could put one together. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t actually plan to play that day because I had enough participants but Jim Spencer started to cramp toward the end so I ended up having to play a couple of games &#8212; without socks. Luckily, I had shoes in my backpack that were still there from the last time I played. I just didn&#8217;t pack any socks because I didn&#8217;t think I was playing. It felt a little weird but it all worked out.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/52449291281\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52449291281_dfdee3b121.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was wonderful to meet Steve and his wife DeAnn. She didn&#8217;t play so she ran the last two rounds when I was playing. They are both lovely and I think everyone had a great time. I always love meeting other pickleball players from far and wide. Making new friends and connecting people is kind of my jam.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out we have some mutual friends, <a href=\"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=26812\" >Nicole Mathis<\/a> being one of them. I cannot wait to make it up to Lawrence and meet the rest of the players from their club! Until next time, GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t been able to set up any DUPR match sessions in a while because of my crazy tournament schedule. There was like a six week stretch around September-October that I was out of town every weekend. Anyway, I finally got a break so when Steve Berndsen from Pickleball Lawrence reached out and asked if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385,3419],"tags":[3530,3531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26825"}],"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=26825"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26831,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26825\/revisions\/26831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}