{"id":2221,"date":"2012-07-02T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T21:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2012-07-02T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T21:47:15","slug":"ground-slam-is-a-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2012\/07\/02\/ground-slam-is-a-grand-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Slam is a Grand Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so the name of my gym is ‘Ground Slam.’ But actually it’s a play-on-words. It’s actually pronounced “Grand Slam.” See, the Japanese katakana pronunciation is “Gu-ra-n-do su-ra-mu.” So it kind of sounds like both. So Katsumura-san intended to make the double meaning, like the “super hit!” meaning of “grand slam” but since it’s MMA and he likes grappling, he spelled it ‘Ground.”<\/p>\n

So… I guess I should pronounce it “Grand Slam” but write “Ground Slam.”
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Okay, so the name of my gym is ‘Ground Slam.’ But actually it’s a play-on-words. It’s actually pronounced “Grand Slam.” See, the Japanese katakana pronunciation is “Gu-ra-n-do su-ra-mu.” So it kind of sounds like both. So Katsumura-san intended to make the double meaning, like the “super hit!” meaning of “grand slam” but since it’s MMA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}