{"id":1657,"date":"2014-06-29T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:07","slug":"business-insider-on-golf-and-chinas-corruption-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/business-insider-on-golf-and-chinas-corruption-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Business Insider<\/em> on golf and China&#8217;s &#8216;corruption crackdown&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mamta Badkar writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crackdown on corruption has been a hallmark of Chinese president Xi Jinping&#8217;s reign.<br \/>\nIncreasing corruption in the party was seen as one of the biggest threats to its survival, and Xi has made it clear that he will stomp it out. <\/p>\n<p>So it isn&#8217;t surprising that top officials in China are wary of doing anything that could make it seem like they are corrupt in anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And that, means officials are even wary of being caught playing golf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chinese-officials-afraid-to-play-golf-2014-6\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Officials Are So Scared Of The Corruption Crackdown They Don&#8217;t Want To Be Seen Playing Golf<\/a>,&#8221; which includes a nice mention of <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamta Badkar writes: The crackdown on corruption has been a hallmark of Chinese president Xi Jinping&#8217;s reign. Increasing corruption in the party was seen as one of the biggest threats to its survival, and Xi has made it clear that he will stomp it out. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[272,9],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-business-insider","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","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=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}