{"id":1804,"date":"2014-08-06T21:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:04","slug":"new-york-times-sinosphere-blog-interviews-dan-washburn-about-forbidden-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/new-york-times-sinosphere-blog-interviews-dan-washburn-about-forbidden-game\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New York Times<\/em> Sinosphere blog interviews Dan Washburn about <em>Forbidden Game<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Q&#038;A with <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter Austin Ramzy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What were your first interactions with golf like in China? Did you play much while you lived in Shanghai?<\/p>\n<p>I actually don\u2019t golf, so it\u2019s a good thing my book isn\u2019t a how-to. My first interactions with the game in China were as a reporter. One of the first tournaments I covered was the inaugural HSBC Champions in Shanghai, notable because it was Tiger Woods\u2019 first time competing in an official event in China. I was on assignment for ESPN.com and wanted to do something a little different than the other journalists crowding the media center. So I left. I walked beyond the gates of the golf club in search of a story. It wasn\u2019t long before I happened upon a community of migrant workers, many of whom were on forced unpaid leave from their jobs at a nearby door-and-window factory because tournament organizers didn\u2019t want the manufacturing noise to affect the golfers. The contrast between these two neighboring worlds was striking. A membership at Sheshan International Golf Club was $148,000 at the time; furnished villas were going for $2 million. Meanwhile, these villagers were living in shacks. If anyone was looking for a vivid illustration of China\u2019s yawning income gap, there it was. Not surprisingly, no one I talked to outside the golf club had any idea who this Tiger Woods guy was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/03\/q-and-a-dan-washburn-on-the-forbidden-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Q&#038;A with New York Times reporter Austin Ramzy: What were your first interactions with golf like in China? Did you play much while you lived in Shanghai? I actually don\u2019t golf, so it\u2019s a good thing my book isn\u2019t a how-to. My first &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[43,85,308],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-interviews","tag-new-york-times","tag-sinosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}