{"id":1863,"date":"2014-10-02T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:03","slug":"golf-oklahoma-calls-the-forbidden-game-a-ripping-good-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/golf-oklahoma-calls-the-forbidden-game-a-ripping-good-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Oklahoma calls The Forbidden Game &#8216;a ripping good yarn&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Bedell<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it sounds like a dour subject, Washburn has managed to turn it into a ripping good yarn by spotlighting three main characters: Zhou Xunshu, struggling to succeed as that rarest of entities, a Chinese tour golf professional; Martin Moore, a shaper from Florida who becomes the go-to man to construct a golf course in China, and Wang Libo, a lychee farmer on Hainan island whose life changes when golf comes to Hainan island in a big way.<\/p>\n<p>The three stories are expertly intertwined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/southcentralgolf\/docs\/augsept2014\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Golf Oklahoma<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/instruction\/5511\/the-captain-speaks\" target=\"_blank\">The A Position<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Bedell writes: If it sounds like a dour subject, Washburn has managed to turn it into a ripping good yarn by spotlighting three main characters: Zhou Xunshu, struggling to succeed as that rarest of entities, a Chinese tour golf professional; Martin Moore, a shaper &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[331,174,332,330],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-golf-oklahoma","tag-reviews","tag-the-a-position","tag-tom-bedell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}