{"id":29181,"date":"2024-03-25T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=29181"},"modified":"2024-03-25T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:30:27","slug":"newbie-night-at-chicken-n-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=29181","title":{"rendered":"Newbie Night at Chicken N Pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a mission to get all of my friends.. Scratch that. I&#8217;m on a mission to get every single person I meet into pickleball. Recently, I met a couple of friends (Jarrica Briedenthal, a friend from Zumba, and Teresa Winfield, an former coworker) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickennpickle.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken N Pickle<\/a> for Newbie Night.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53574302086\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53574302086_3be5765701_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Me and Jarrica\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me and Jarrica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53573443472\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53573443472_a5f1af879d_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Me and Teresa\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me and Teresa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53574511918\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53574511918_a27f38a5f1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Newbie Night\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Harris, director of pickleball at our Chicken N Pickle in Wichita, did a wonderful job of leading the session. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53574510803\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53574510803_da7a11f418_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Newbie Night\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newbie Nights are a great way to introduce friends to pickleball because of the fun casual environment. Besides that, they also provide all the equipment so you don&#8217;t even have to have your own paddle. Most people who are eager to get into the sport have already bought a starter set from Amazon and usually show up with their own paddles but it is not required.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/53574627114\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53574627114_d4bc24d1b2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember dragging mom and dad, and even some of my Leadership Wichita classmates, to a <a href=\"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23279\" >Newbie Night a couple of years ago<\/a> when they were first getting into pickleball also. Anyway, if you would like to check it out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reservecnp.com\/wichita\/event\/newbie-night\/?\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the next one is on Tuesday, April 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a mission to get all of my friends.. Scratch that. I&#8217;m on a mission to get every single person I meet into pickleball. Recently, I met a couple of friends (Jarrica Briedenthal, a friend from Zumba, and Teresa Winfield, an former coworker) at Chicken N Pickle for Newbie Night. Me and Jarrica Me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3419,262],"tags":[3163,191,3272,3137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181"}],"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=29181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29187,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181\/revisions\/29187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}