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  "id": "0603",
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    "code": "CRT",
    "slug": "court",
    "name": "Court",
    "purpose": "Pickleball — matches, paddles, drills.",
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  "title": "The Court Fund — keep the record, fund a court",
  "dek": "A $25 patron pass. Half keeps the register current. Half buys real things for local courts, on a public ledger.",
  "body": "The Paddle Register is free, has no affiliate links, and is now ninety-two paddles across three years. Keeping it current costs research and hours. Here is how it stays free without becoming a store.\n\nA patron pass is twenty-five dollars a season. Half goes to the house: hosting, the weekly research that checks every paddle against both approval lists, the hours. Half goes into the Court Fund, which buys concrete things for courts within a few miles of where this is written. Season one's candidates: a ball machine for El Segundo Recreation Park, two nets and a season of balls for Hollyglen, a block of youth hours at California Smash. Patrons vote. When the fund can cover a pick, it gets bought, and the receipt and a photo go on the ledger.\n\nThe ledger is the point. Every dollar in is a dated line. The split is two numbers next to the total. No payout is recorded without a receipt; the page will not show one. A pass buys nothing on the register that anyone else cannot read: a vote, a name on the wall if you want it, and your corrections reviewed first.\n\nEvery paddle page now has a corrections door too. A claim needs a source URL; accepted ones land in the changes feed with that source. That is the other way the record gets kept.\n\nUntil the checkout opens, the page takes pledges: a count, no money, no email. That count is what opens it.",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-22T05:30:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x1",
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  "external": {
    "label": "The Court Fund",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/paddles/fund"
  },
  "meta": {
    "room": "paddles",
    "status": "open for pledges",
    "asOf": "2026-09-21",
    "priceUsd": 25,
    "split": "50/50"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": null,
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/paddles/fund.json",
      "label": "The ledger as JSON",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/paddle-fund",
      "label": "The Paddle Fund — the crew version",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/paddles",
      "label": "The register",
      "surface": "external"
    }
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