{"id":6710,"date":"2017-03-31T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T05:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T05:56:51","slug":"isaac-jemielita-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/isaac-jemielita-tennis","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Jemielita Tennis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my spring semester, I chose to play tennis at a local tennis group called Pacorn tennis. They meet everyday except <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span> at courts nearby Omiya station. Because the most people come on the weekend, I would go every <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span> and play tennis. This was good because usually people picked a regular day to go so I got to know several people over the course of the semester. I played a bit of tennis in high school but hadn&#8217;t had much of a chance to play in college. The level of play was just right for me and I have gotten a bit better at tennis and Japanese from doing it.<\/p>\n<div>The way it&#8217;s structured is always the same. For an hour and a half, everyone does drills together. The remaining time is spent playing doubles. Since there a lot of people (sometimes as many as fifty people come!) and not many useable courts, there were a lot of chances to catch my breath and chat in Japanese.<\/div>\n<div>One thing that happened every week is that at least one person would express concern about the way I was dressed. Everyone wears long sleeved atheistic shirts and work out pants. And a hat sometimes. I can&#8217;t really play tennis in pants, so I always wear shorts. Someone always asks me if I&#8217;m cold. Then I say no and they look at me like I&#8217;m an idiot who will probably die of hypothermia or something. Playing tennis in Japan was a great choice. It was a fun way to get exercise and meet Japanese people.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my spring semester, I chose to play tennis at a local tennis group called Pacorn tennis. They meet everyda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/isaac-jemielita-tennis\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"6710"},"categories":[3,131,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}