{"id":100,"date":"2017-03-10T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2017-03-10T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T19:08:40","slug":"ping-pong-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/ping-pong-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping Pong Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001-1.jpg\" alt=\"001\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/001-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"5blmg-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">New city, new friends. It&#8217;s been quite a ride to pack up and leave our home of seven years and come to the ancient city of London. But we were finally in the land of football. Real football. (I&#8217;m looking at you, NFL) We decided to watch Bayern Munich&#8217;s game against Arsenal in a Bavarian Beerhouse. Very fitting. Walked into a room semi-packed with\u00a0Germans. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"5blmg-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">In fifteen minutes, we were sitting at their table, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"adverb\"><span data-offset-key=\"5blmg-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">politely<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"5blmg-3-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> chiming in when spoken to in English, and having sweet sweet Wei\u00dfbier<\/span><\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"5blmg-4-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/004.jpg\" alt=\"004\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/004.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/004-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/004-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/004-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4jd97\" data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-0-0\">\n<p><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">After a 5-1 victory, we went to the Bounce Ping Pong bar and discovered that playing table tennis drunk is incredible<\/span><\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">. I <\/span><\/span><span class=\"adverb\"><span data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">highly<\/span><\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-3-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-3-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> recommend that you give it a try. The cherry on top was that I finally figured out a way to beat my wife at ping pong. Every. Single. Time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trick is to lob it across with a lot of bounce. The chance is too juicy to resist, and she hits it way too hard every single time. She is laughing her head off, and I&#8217;m getting all the points. Everybody wins!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are the deets for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bouncepingpong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bounce<\/a>\u00a0in case you decide to give it a spin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"e4qmf-0-0\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/002.jpg\" alt=\"002\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/002.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/002-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/002-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/002-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/003.jpg\" alt=\"003\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/003.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/003-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/003-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/003-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/005.jpg\" alt=\"005\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/005.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/005-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/005-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/005-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/005-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/005-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New city, new friends. 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