{"id":1654,"date":"2014-06-29T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:07","slug":"aleph-blogs-david-merkel-calls-forbidden-game-a-great-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/aleph-blogs-david-merkel-calls-forbidden-game-a-great-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleph Blog&#8217;s David Merkel calls <em>Forbidden Game<\/em> &#8216;a great book&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m not a golfer, but I really liked this book.  The charm of the book is that it takes us through the lives of three men, and a host of lesser characters, and shows us how the growth of golf in China shaped their lives. &#8230; Three engaging characters amid the ambiguity of changing regulations, and whether it was legal to build new courses or not. &#8230; You will learn a lot about China in the process\u2026 what it is like dealing with an all-powerful Party whose machinations are secret.  And yet, one where if enough people protest, you can\u2019t do anything, even if you have all of the permits in place. &#8230; This was an enjoyable book to read, and I think most people would learn something from it. &#8230; This is a great book.  It will make a great gift to friends of yours who are golfers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read David&#8217;s complete review <a href=\"http:\/\/alephblog.com\/2014\/06\/22\/book-review-the-forbidden-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read a Q&#038;A he did with me <a href=\"http:\/\/alephblog.com\/2014\/06\/22\/qa-with-the-forbidden-game-author-dan-washburn\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a golfer, but I really liked this book. The charm of the book is that it takes us through the lives of three men, and a host of lesser characters, and shows us how the growth of golf in China shaped their lives. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[271,270,174],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-aleph-blog","tag-david-merkel","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}