{"id":1697,"date":"2014-07-01T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:06","slug":"espn-com-runs-exclusive-excerpt-from-the-forbidden-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/espn-com-runs-exclusive-excerpt-from-the-forbidden-game\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN.com runs exclusive excerpt from <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game.jpg\" alt=\"espn_golf_forbidden_game\" width=\"1012\" height=\"792\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1698\" data-wp-pid=\"1698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game.jpg 1012w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game-260x203.jpg 260w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game-360x281.jpg 360w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game-560x438.jpg 560w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game-760x594.jpg 760w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/espn_golf_forbidden_game-800x626.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The following excerpt comes from Dan Washburn&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream,&#8221; which follows the lives of three men caught up in China&#8217;s bizarre \u2014 and, in some cases, illegal \u2014 golf scene. The passage below focuses on Zhou Xunshu, whose inspiring underdog story takes him from peasant farmer to security guard to professional golfer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/11156599\/the-forbidden-game-golf\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt comes from Dan Washburn&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream,&#8221; which follows the lives of three men caught up in China&#8217;s bizarre \u2014 and, in some cases, illegal \u2014 golf scene. The passage below focuses on Zhou Xunshu, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[12,289],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-espncom","tag-excerpts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}