{"id":15149,"date":"2018-05-24T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2018-11-30T17:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:40:34","slug":"competition-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/?p=15149","title":{"rendered":"Fencing in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

After winning the senior national championships for the first time, I was invited to participate in a competition in Dubai by my sponsor, Shahram Massoumi. I fortunately finished my tests just the day before we flew out, otherwise I would not have been allowed to go. The competition was quite an odd experience. We started in the evening instead of the morning, since it was ramadan. Because I won all matches in my poule, and won the two eliminations after that, I made it to the finale two days later. The first day was not too difficult for me, but the finale was. I had to fence against Besbes from Tunisia, who was second at the world championships last year. I tried my best, but my opponent was just a higher caliber. It was nice to experience what it is like to fence against an olympian.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was in Dubai with my trainer for about a week. In that week, we explored the city, went to the beach and the waterpark one day. We had delicious dinners over there as well. I had such an amazing time, fencing and exploring the city. All thanks to Shahram Massoumi from Al Maasa who sponsored the trip.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After winning the senior national championships for the first time, I was invited to participate in a competition in Dubai by my sponsor, Shahram Massoumi. I fortunately finished my tests just the day before we flew out, otherwise I would not have been allowed to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15322,"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions\/15322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marleenbuitenhuis.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}