{"id":1336,"date":"2013-10-25T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parforchina.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:07","slug":"golf-included-in-shanghai-kindergartens-man-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/golf-included-in-shanghai-kindergartens-man-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf included in Shanghai kindergarten&#8217;s &#8216;man cave&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tD4ccqKY4xo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the CCTV report embedded above, a &#8220;special kindergarten&#8221; in Shanghai is teaching its male students &#8220;how to be tougher&#8221; \u2014 and golf, apparently, is part of the recipe.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to &#8220;cultivate some of the best masculine traits valued by Chinese culture, such as bravery, courage, and a sense of responsibility,&#8221; the school has created a &#8220;man cave&#8221; of sorts, a guys-only room that includes such macho activities as baseball, archery, foosball, and cars. There&#8217;s also a mini sand battlefield with toy soldiers and weapons. And, yes, golf.<\/p>\n<p>One student said, &#8220;I want to become a golf champion when I grow up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>School officials said they thought such a room was necessary when they discovered that the students who cried on the first day of school were usually the boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a CCTV report, a &#8220;special kindergarten&#8221; in Shanghai is teaching its male students &#8220;how to be tougher&#8221; \u2014 and golf, apparently, is part of the recipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[176,4,7,151,111,152],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cctv","tag-china","tag-golf","tag-shanghai","tag-video","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}