{"id":1662,"date":"2014-06-29T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:06","slug":"businessweek-says-forbidden-gamecharming-and-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/businessweek-says-forbidden-gamecharming-and-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Businessweek<\/em> says <em>Forbidden Game<\/em> &#8216;charming and accessible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Larson writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The quixotic rise of golf in China\u2014where Mao Zedong once lambasted putting as a bourgeois pastime\u2014is the subject of a new book by the Asia Society\u2019s Dan Washburn. In The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, a charming and accessible work, Washburn follows the lives of three men whose careers are shaped by the sport: an American golf course designer who finds work in China, a budding Chinese tournament golfer, and a farmer whose land is converted into fairways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-06-25\/building-new-golf-courses-in-china-is-an-illegal-but-booming-industry\" target=\"_blank\">Building Golf Courses in China: An Illegal and Booming Industry<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Larson writes: The quixotic rise of golf in China\u2014where Mao Zedong once lambasted putting as a bourgeois pastime\u2014is the subject of a new book by the Asia Society\u2019s Dan Washburn. In The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, a charming and accessible work, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[274,275,174],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-businessweek","tag-christina-larson","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}