{"id":2188,"date":"2009-05-25T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T23:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianramblings.com\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2009-05-25T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T23:50:53","slug":"friday-chinese-basketball-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/friday-chinese-basketball-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday on the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"Friday afternoon on the court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevosz\/3560501545\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2438\/3560501545_87f416cf34_o.jpg?w=575\" alt=\"ESL Teachers and a student take part in a basketball game as part of a school charity event in Shenzhen, China.\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>ESL Teachers and a student take part in a basketball game as part of a school charity event in Shenzhen, China.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I worked for a newspaper I loved shooting high school sports. The weather this day didn&#8217;t agree with me. This image looked much better before the JPG conversion. And, I&#8217;m way out of practice.\u00a0 Michael at Expatriate Games has <a title=\"Basketball | Expatriate Games\" href=\"http:\/\/expatriategames.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/29\/kentucky-uk-basketball-gillispie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a great description of basketball in China<\/a> (the nation is crazy for it). I recommend reading it.<\/p>\n<p>The two weeks of sunshine were a tease. I spent most of the weekend inside thanks to torrential downpours. June 1 signals the start of the Pacific typhoon season. A school day canceled because of a typhoon is always welcome. 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