{"id":18624,"date":"2026-04-15T21:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:51:28","slug":"pw-9-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/pw-9-10\/","title":{"rendered":"PW #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not really sure what to write but I\u2019ll talk about today. It was my first ASA at Brookes and I tried tennis with Ciel. I was a complete beginner, I genuinely had no clue what I was doing. I\u2019m not really sure why I chose it, but for some reason I thought I\u2019d be playing like high level competitive rallies on my first try but that wasn\u2019t the case. It was mostly me just swinging and hoping the ball would go over the net, or sometimes missing it completely. It looks really easy when other people do it, but when I tried it, not how I expected. At one point I think I hit the ball so badly it flew into another random person\u2019s court. After a bit,\u00a0 I started to get way better though. I\u00a0 just started to go for it. Still nowhere near the level I imagined, but we actually managed some decent hits and even had a rallies that lasted longer than expected against eachother. It was also way more tiring than I thought, but honestly pretty fun. I\u2019d definitely play on my own time just to get better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not really sure what to write but I\u2019ll talk about today. It was my first ASA at Brookes and I tried tennis with Ciel. I was a complete beginner, I genuinely had no clue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18658,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}