{"id":42,"date":"2005-12-16T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/one-for-the-ages\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:49","slug":"one-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/one-for-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"One for the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared and I played our greatest racquetball match in our 1.5-year history tonight.  To give you the background, racquetball games are played to 15 points, with 2 of 3 games winning a match.  In the past 1.5 years, I&#8217;ve won zero matches and about half a dozen games against Jared, which is dismal, given that we play weekly.  (So I&#8217;ve won about 6 of around 150 games.)  Not only that, but I have a tendancy to lose with less than 10 points&#8230; so most of the games aren&#8217;t really even close.  I suppose it&#8217;s fair, since Jared outscores me on tests with about the same frequency that I beat him in racquetball.  (Though usually he&#8217;s right behind me or tied if he doesn&#8217;t outscore me)<\/p>\n<p>Tonight though, tonight was different.  The first game I opened strong and beat the living crap out of Jared, 15-6.  I&#8217;ve never beat him that resoundingly, ever.  The streak continued in game 2, which could have clinched me my first match win ever, had I not screwed up around 8 points and ended up losing 12-15.  Sad.  The game though, was awesome.  We fought nearly half an hour for that game, including one amazing volley that I swear must have lasted 5 minutes, including both of us completing off-the-back-wall saves.  What a good time.  Definitely the best I&#8217;ve ever played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared and I played our greatest racquetball match in our 1.5-year history tonight. To give you the background, racquetball games are played to 15 points, with 2 of 3 games winning a match. In the past 1.5 years, I&#8217;ve won zero matches and about half a dozen games against Jared, which is dismal, given that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}