{"id":28519,"date":"2023-11-13T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=28519"},"modified":"2023-11-13T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:52:34","slug":"monster-smash-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=28519","title":{"rendered":"Monster Smash 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had so much fun having a <a href=\"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=26842\" >Halloween cookout last year celebrating the new pickleball courts at Sedgwick County Park<\/a> last year that the Thorne brothers wanted to do something similar again this year. We originally planned for it to be at Edgemoor Park because of the six new courts there but Mother Nature had her own ideas. Thankfully, David Thorne worked with West YMCA leadership and got the event relocated indoors to the Pickle Center so we were able to still bring everyone together. It was a ton of fun! Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monster Smash 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Ru8vH_D6po?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After hanging out at the Monster Smash open play for a bit, Nicole Mathis, Kyle VonAnh, and I headed down the street to the Pickle Club for our mixed doubles practice session with Jenny and Austin Corley, Kendra Wicks, Ian Carr, and Ryan Kellenbarger. Ryan and Nicole and Kyle and I all wanted to practice together before Nationals so those were the team ups: Nicole and Ryan, Kendra and Ian, Jenny and Austin, and me and Kyle. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53295831970\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53295831970_0fe5d5ff57_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day Nicole and Ryan continued their practice weekend\/team bonding by playing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickennpickle.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken N Pickle<\/a> Halloween pickleball tournament and taking it down. It was a nice, productive pickleball weekend overall. GNG. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had so much fun having a Halloween cookout last year celebrating the new pickleball courts at Sedgwick County Park last year that the Thorne brothers wanted to do something similar again this year. We originally planned for it to be at Edgemoor Park because of the six new courts there but Mother Nature had [&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":[152,3246,3644,3642,3643,3645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28519"}],"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=28519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28525,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28519\/revisions\/28525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}