{"id":28544,"date":"2023-11-19T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=28544"},"modified":"2023-11-19T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:00:31","slug":"birthday-pickleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=28544","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Pickleball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The girls surprised me at pickleball a couple of weeks ago. Although, the funniest part of this is that the surprise happened at lunch when I saw some group texts come through about needing this or that for play that evening. I really wasn&#8217;t sure what was going on until Kimberly texted, &#8220;Whose birthday is it?&#8221; And then Karen or someone else replied, &#8220;Ching.&#8221; I almost spit out my lunch and busted up laughing because I was in the group text. LOL.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53304329024\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53304329024_66465037e8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chie, Tami, and Stacy are missing from the group photo because our last game went into serious over time. We finished at  13-11 but it was getting really late. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53304604816\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53304604816_7bb946a79f_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53305079310\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53305079310_272c3d8a68_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is so nice to have thoughtful friends who celebrate you even when you&#8217;re not in a celebratory mood. You can&#8217;t be too upset with life when you are surrounded by people who love and care about you. #feelinggratefulandblessed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girls surprised me at pickleball a couple of weeks ago. Although, the funniest part of this is that the surprise happened at lunch when I saw some group texts come through about needing this or that for play that evening. I really wasn&#8217;t sure what was going on until Kimberly texted, &#8220;Whose birthday is [&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":[115,3648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544"}],"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=28544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28548,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions\/28548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}