{"id":176632060,"date":"2013-11-01T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squashword.wpengine.com\/?p=176632060"},"modified":"2014-06-04T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:44:53","slug":"private-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632060","title":{"rendered":"Private Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades people have been building squash courts at their homes. Victor Niederhoffer put one in at his estate in Weston, CT. A year and a half ago I reported here about my visit to the Gould&#8217;s icehouse court in the Catskills, built in 1981. Gordie Anderson is the mastermind behind most private courts these days: in the past quarter century, he has built about a hundred private courts, mostly singles courts but he&#8217;s done doubles courts, including one in Barbados.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> just ran an article about some of the new facilities people put in their homes: lacrosse fields, basketball courts, bowling alleys. Sam Oh put in a stunning squash court at his home in Greenwich, CT, perhaps one of the most architecturally interesting squash buildings in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And another thought: Look for eleven year-old Penelope Oh to improve her ranking last season of sixty-six in the country<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303471004579162610593150456<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades people have been building squash courts at their homes. Victor Niederhoffer put one in at his estate in Weston, CT. A year and a half ago I reported here about my visit to the Gould&#8217;s icehouse court in the Catskills, built in 1981. Gordie Anderson is the mastermind behind most private courts these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Private Courts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176632060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176632060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176632060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176632060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176632060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}