{"id":50,"date":"2011-01-31T06:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.usbef.org\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2015-04-22T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T02:14:29","slug":"a-game-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/31\/a-game-of\/","title":{"rendered":"A Game of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>A GAME OF  A\r\n               N\r\n                  G\r\n                     L\r\n                         E\r\n                            S<\/pre>\n<p>A game of angles,<br \/>\nOh, that it is!<br \/>\nBadminton, you say,<br \/>\nThat bird-hitting biz.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The obvious smash<br \/>\nThat goes to the floor<br \/>\nIn that downward angle<br \/>\nReturning no more.<br \/>\nBut what of the drop<\/p>\n<p>That loops over the net<br \/>\nAngled so closely<br \/>\nThat you&#8217;ll never get?<br \/>\nAnd how about the clear<\/p>\n<p>That soars over your head<br \/>\nTo the back line&#8211;<br \/>\nThat bird is dead!<br \/>\nThe flattest of shots<br \/>\nThat hard-hitting drive<\/p>\n<p>That gets to the alley<br \/>\nBefore you can dive!<br \/>\nAnd then there&#8217;s the slice<br \/>\nThat cuts through the air<\/p>\n<p>To the opposite court&#8211;<br \/>\nYour opponent says where?<br \/>\nAnd a tumble so tough<br \/>\nAs it climbs over the tape<br \/>\nAnd falls down the net,<\/p>\n<p>To reach it you gape!<br \/>\nAnd how about the serve<br \/>\nAs upward it goes<br \/>\nThen down to your racket<\/p>\n<p>And back to your foes?<br \/>\nLastly, fear not the flick<br \/>\nIt goes up over your court<br \/>\nTo catch you off guard&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>To a return you resort.<br \/>\nOh, for those shuttles,<br \/>\nHow sweetly they fly,<br \/>\nCaressing those angles<\/p>\n<p>As you wish them good-bye.<br \/>\nWhen they don&#8217;t return<br \/>\nYour job is done,<br \/>\nChances are<br \/>\nThat you&#8217;ve likely won!<\/p>\n<p>Upward and downward,<br \/>\nCross court and straight,<br \/>\nSome flying quickly,<br \/>\nSome a slow rate.<\/p>\n<p>But what fun it is<br \/>\nTo create those angles,<br \/>\nTo keep your opponents<br \/>\nIn all kinds of tangles.<\/p>\n<p>So just drop and slice,<br \/>\nHit a smash and a clear,<br \/>\nCreate those angles<br \/>\nAnd instill the fear.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom-line being<br \/>\nBesides winning the game,<br \/>\nThe angles you&#8217;ve hit<br \/>\nAre never the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GAME OF A N G L E S A game of angles, Oh, that it is! Badminton, you say, That bird-hitting biz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usbef.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}