{"id":15,"date":"2007-08-08T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andybox.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-08-08T13:54:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T19:54:41","slug":"tennis-and-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Tennis and Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a great sport. I&#8217;ve started playing once a week with some friends of mine from the Southwest People department. We all played some in the past, so we&#8217;re neither horrible nor heirs to Federer&#8217;s throne. It&#8217;s great to be back on the court regularly. I make a few horrible shots for every great one (ask the guys about my serve that went over the fence), but fortunately I enjoy laughing at myself. Between my running and almost-weekly tennis, I&#8217;m gradually getting into better shape.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m set to leave for Alaska on Friday morning and have a long list of items to pack on Thursday. My new digital camera came in a couple days ago, and I love it! I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m smart enough to use all its different features, though. Good thing some poor tech writer put together a semi-detailed manual! The forecast for Juneau looks great &#8211; nice and cool, sunny, with little chance of rain. I&#8217;ll try to post some pictures after I get back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a great sport. I&#8217;ve started playing once a week with some friends of mine from the Southwest People department. We all played some in the past, so we&#8217;re neither horrible nor heirs to Federer&#8217;s throne. It&#8217;s great to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=15\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}