{"id":1518,"date":"2010-09-03T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:53:00","slug":"never-mind-the-cricket-tennis-tomfoolery-is-rife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/09\/never-mind-the-cricket-tennis-tomfoolery-is-rife\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind the cricket &#8211; tennis tomfoolery is rife."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1520\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/child-tennis-player.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1520\" title=\"child tennis player\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/child-tennis-player-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potential opponent for Dave on court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Living with Andy Murray. Well someone who thinks he is. Have you heard of this system whereby if you enter a competition and call your opponent, suggest 3 different days and times to play and if they can&#8217;t make any of those times you win by default without playing? I hadn&#8217;t but I have now. David is in the semi-final of the Club Handicap Championship and has yet to play a match at all.<br \/>\nEach time through the rounds he has come off the phone guffawing loudly as yet again his opponent can&#8217;t make the times suggested.<br \/>\nSo anyway yesterday he strode off to play his semi-final match against a really nice geezer and won 7-5 6-0 so he is on for the final. Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1521\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/old-tennis-player.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1521\" title=\"old tennis player\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/old-tennis-player-128x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave afterwards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teenwolf and I are smirking broadly as the entire tennis club congregate to watch the final \u2013 the non-handicap one is just after Dave&#8217;s moment in the sun &#8211; so the whole lot of them will be sitting at the side of the court. The best thing of all is he may well be playing a very talented 11 year old who is in the other semi. This I will not just have to see but take photos, video and post on youtube for all the world to see. I know I&#8217;m a cruel old slapper but I just can&#8217;t help it.<br \/>\nI will report. If I can stop laughing long enough to up-date the blog.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living with Andy Murray. Well someone who thinks he is. Have you heard of this system whereby if you enter a competition and call your&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}