{"id":108,"date":"2009-03-15T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-03-15T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T15:10:30","slug":"pola-one-luke-a-million-pola-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/108","title":{"rendered":"Pola one, Luke a million. Pola wins."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090302_img_0211-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA few weeks ago (Monday, March 3rd) I mentioned that Pola and I &#8220;made&#8221; a table tennis table for our living room. It isn&#8217;t ONLY for table tennis, as we also use it for larger dinner\/breakfast gatherings and for large art projects. But table tennis is, by far, what it is used for the most.<\/p>\n<p>Since then we&#8217;ve been spending between half an hour to an hour every day tapping a ball back and forth. It&#8217;s a productivity vortex, but we have good conversations as we are playing. At the end of each session we play, on average, three or four 11 point games. I always win. Until the our eighth game today, when my concentration lapsed and Pola beat me 11 to 8. Cue lots of dancing and screaming and &#8220;I said whoever won that game wins them all, so I&#8217;m the overall champion!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll start putting spin on my returns. That&#8217;ll teach her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago (Monday, March 3rd) I mentioned that Pola and I &#8220;made&#8221; a table tennis table for our living room. It isn&#8217;t ONLY for table tennis, as we also use it for larger dinner\/breakfast gatherings and for large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}