{"id":210,"date":"2004-10-27T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T14:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=210"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:04:04","slug":"slap_a_number_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/slap_a_number_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Slap A Number On Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke in cycling that says if you want to slow some guys down, just slap a number on their back. Because on the weekend club ride they&#8217;ll attack and drop you on Lands End, or put the boots to you up the Malahat. But enter them in a race and they&#8217;re pack fodder, missing breaks, off the back or dropping out.<br \/>\nSo ya, I got schooled again in a squash match last Wednesday night. It was the first night of the city-wide Division 3 league (the lowest ranked league). I&#8217;m on the Victoria Squash Club&#8217;s Team 1, in position 2 (pos. 1 being the top guy on the team). I played a man from another team I think I would have normally beat. Another player from my club thought so, too. The only difference on Wednesday was that it was an actual tournament match and not just casual.<br \/>\nThat joke in cycling was often very true, for some guys. I&#8217;ll bet there&#8217;s an equivalent in squash. I&#8217;m going to learn to stay away from it. Tonight I&#8217;ll win.<br \/>\n<strong>Update Oct. 28<\/strong>: I lost again big time last night. Man.<br \/>\n<strong>Update Nov. 1<\/strong>: I lost the majority of my games during this weekend&#8217;s club tournament.<br \/>\n<strong>Update Nov. 5<\/strong>: I lost again on Wednesday, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke in cycling that says if you want to slow some guys down, just slap a number on their back. Because on the weekend club ride they&#8217;ll attack and drop you on Lands End, or put the boots to you up the Malahat. But enter them in a race and they&#8217;re pack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}