{"id":324,"date":"2013-05-05T22:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T02:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2013-05-05T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T02:24:19","slug":"pickleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Pickleball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I played Pickleball at the Ann Arbor Y. I&#8217;d never heard of Pickleball but was promised it was &#8220;super fun&#8221;. And, indeed, it was.<\/p>\n<p>Pickleball is played on a badminton court with the net lowered to 34 inches. It is played with a perforated plastic baseball (similar to a whiffle ball) and wood paddles. about the size of a paddleball racquet. It is easy for beginners to learn, but can develop into a quick, fast-paced, competitive game for experienced players. It&#8217;s sort of a mix of doubles tennis, racquetball, and badminton.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d play again in a heartbeat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I played Pickleball at the Ann Arbor Y. I&#8217;d never heard of Pickleball but was promised it was &#8220;super fun&#8221;. And, indeed, it was. Pickleball is played on a badminton court with the net lowered to 34 inches. It is played with a perforated plastic baseball (similar to a whiffle ball) and wood paddles. about the size of a<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=324\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-ann-arbor","category-fun-stuff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}