{"id":1867,"date":"2009-07-31T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T08:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2012-04-29T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T07:24:09","slug":"it-was-a-clash-of-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"It was a clash of Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spry, sprightly and slightly caffeine-hyped young woman dragged her husband from his near-death-bed, where he was recovering from a v. serious illness, and threw him on to the local Badminton court at 21.00 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Not at all intimidated (!) by some very flash players from a Club on the neighbouring courts, the unevenly-matched couple threw themselves in to their game.<\/p>\n<p>After a 25-minute warm-up the contest between the two unevenly-matched competitors commenced.<\/p>\n<p>And, despite some extended rallies that were punctuated by flashingly fast slam-shots, it was soon over.<\/p>\n<p>After two straight games victory nestled in the winner&#8217;s heart like a warm and cuddly friend.<\/p>\n<p>And who was the emphatic victor?<\/p>\n<p>The seriously ill husband.<\/p>\n<p>But she gave him a real run for his money.<\/p>\n<p><em>(I may live to regret this post. Soph&#8217;s getting very good)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spry, sprightly and slightly caffeine-hyped young woman dragged her husband from his near-death-bed, where he was recovering from a v. serious illness, and threw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}