{"id":3676,"date":"2009-12-27T00:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T06:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2009-12-27T00:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T06:35:40","slug":"my-racquetball-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3676","title":{"rendered":"My Racquetball Mates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ronnie, April, Jay and Brian<\/strong><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/4216278634\/\"  title=\"My racquetball mates. by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4216278634_22a948c133.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"My racquetball mates.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had fun at racquetball today.  We&#8217;ve got Jay and Ronnie (and maybe April, too?) completely hooked on racquetball.  We&#8217;ve created racquetball monsters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibit A<\/strong><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/4215515273\/\"  title=\"Ronnie and his new racket. by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2683\/4215515273_676c1ff704.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Ronnie and his new racket.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ronnie showed up to racquetball today with a new racket, which he is yet to name.  It&#8217;s not any old generic racket either. It&#8217;s an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00133MUCY?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lifeafter-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00133MUCY\" >Ektelon Hybrid Hornet<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifeafter-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00133MUCY\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, which has a power level of 2400.  It&#8217;s scary how much speed and power his hits carry now.  You definitely do not want to get hit by that ball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibit B<\/strong><br \/>\nDid I mention that we normally reserve multiple racquetball courts?  This morning we had five court reservations going and we actually played racquetball for three hours (from 9 AM to noon).  Sad to say, we are court hogs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibit C<\/strong><br \/>\nWe now have to wear eye protection when we play.  Brian and I didn&#8217;t have to before.  Playing with Ronnie and Jay completely changes things.  We can no longer go on taking eye protection for granted.  Brian knows this first hand, unfortunately.  <\/p>\n<p>Brian is a bit of a ball\/accident magnet.  Every time we play racquetball he gets hit at least a few times.  Today both Ronnie and I got him good (at almost the exact same spot, too).  The time before that he got hit half a dozen times at different parts of his body.  And the time before that, Jay got him in the eye.  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3579\" >you all know that story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Jay wanted me to blog about how he is <strong>so much better<\/strong> at racquetball now than when he first started playing racquetball with us.  That was his request after beating me at racquetball twice today.  LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie, April, Jay and Brian We had fun at racquetball today. We&#8217;ve got Jay and Ronnie (and maybe April, too?) completely hooked on racquetball. We&#8217;ve created racquetball monsters. Exhibit A Ronnie showed up to racquetball today with a new racket, which he is yet to name. It&#8217;s not any old generic racket either. It&#8217;s an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,403],"tags":[128,122,507,2498,125,864,914,913,912,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676"}],"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=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}