{"id":365,"date":"2005-10-10T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T23:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2005-10-10T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T23:17:01","slug":"a-reluctant-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"A reluctant partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the evening playing bridge at Sarah&#8217;s with her parents. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to play this great game, so I was easily persuaded to forego my usual run around a football pitch. Whilst her parents were keen bridge players, Sarah was not, but was persuaded it was a game worth learning to play. As such, the game was played a little slower than usually played as the various rules and conventions of bridge were explained. Sarah is fairly bright though and picked up the game without too much of a problem. Alas, the first rubber went to her parents, albeit with one game to us, but the second rubber looked promising with one game to us until bad light stopped play &#8211; it was getting late! A very cool evening spent doing something different from the usual. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/distinctionjacket.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" SmFT Y bxXPvGe\"> SmFT Y bxXPvGe<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the evening playing bridge at Sarah&#8217;s with her parents. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to play this great game, so I was easily persuaded to forego my usual run around a football pitch. Whilst her parents were keen bridge players, Sarah was not, but was persuaded it was a game&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=365\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}