{"id":47,"date":"2010-06-09T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:48:11","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p>The Essex County Table Tennis Association was formed in 1938 to promote the sport of Table Tennis in the county.<\/p>\n<p>We are affiliated to Table Tennis England and our purpose is to:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>act as the controlling and governing body of the sport of Table Tennis in Essex;<\/li>\n<li>assist and encourage the formation of Table Tennis Leagues and clubs in Essex;<\/li>\n<li>promote the sport in every possible way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Essex has thirteen table tennis leagues, eighty-six table tennis clubs, and well over a thousand league table tennis players. Table tennis is a fantastic sport because it it is relatively inexpensive, fun and excellent for general fitness. It is a sport that people can start at five years old and carry on into their nineties! In that time, you&#8217;ll find the sport continually evolving but that feeling of hitting a crisp forehand loop-drive past your opponent will always feel amazing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>These webpages are designed to inform new players where they might play (leagues &amp; clubs), showcase our young talent (juniors &amp; cadets), provide updates through our county table tennis news service, and to set out all the many coaching and competitive play oppotunities in the county and further afield.<\/p>\n<p>The officers of E.C.T.T.A. are given on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/officers\/\">officers page<\/a> &#8211; do please feel free to email any of us if you require any help or advice about table tennis in Essex. We will be very glad to hear from you!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Essex County Table Tennis Association was formed in 1938 to promote the sport of Table Tennis in the county. We are affiliated to Table Tennis England and our purpose is to:- act as the controlling and governing body of the sport of Table Tennis in Essex; assist and encourage the formation of Table Tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}