{"id":1792,"date":"2014-07-27T20:05:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T00:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:05","slug":"read-an-excerpt-from-dan-washburns-the-forbidden-game-in-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/read-an-excerpt-from-dan-washburns-the-forbidden-game-in-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Read an excerpt from Dan Washburn&#8217;s <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em> in <em>Quartz<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Despite Beijing\u2019s golf course moratorium, some big developers have continued to show a remarkable ability to manage and massage guanxi with local government officials. Without the right connections, it would never have been possible to operate on the grand scale needed to build a golf resort. And managing and massaging guanxi was often a very tangible business. Sources familiar with one company said that before launching a large golf course construction project in Guangdong, the developer outfitted the local police department with a new fleet of motorcycles. On Hainan island, it was said the company built the county a brand new government office building during the negotiations over another large golf-related development. That land deal fell through, but the building, or at least the shell of it, remained. \u201cIt\u2019s sitting there like a big old white elephant,\u201d a local source said. \u201cThat\u2019s development in China right there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of &#8220;To get a golf course built in China, call it a &#8216;resort'&#8221; at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/237209\/to-get-a-golf-course-built-in-china-call-it-a-resort\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Beijing\u2019s golf course moratorium, some big developers have continued to show a remarkable ability to manage and massage guanxi with local government officials. Without the right connections, it would never have been possible to operate on the grand scale needed to build a golf &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[289,306],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-excerpts","tag-quartz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}