{"id":1975,"date":"2015-01-21T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:02","slug":"listen-nprs-only-a-game-on-forbidden-games-especially-intriguing-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/listen-nprs-only-a-game-on-forbidden-games-especially-intriguing-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: NPR&#8217;s &#8216;Only a Game&#8217; on Forbidden Game&#8217;s &#8216;especially intriguing characters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, NPR&#8217;s Bill Littlefield talked to me about <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em> and China&#8217;s complex relationship with golf for his &#8220;Only a Game&#8221; broadcast. You can listen to it here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"124\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"\/\/embed.wbur.org\/player\/onlyagame\/2014\/12\/20\/the-forbidden-game-golf-china-washburn\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bill also <a href=\"http:\/\/onlyagame.wbur.org\/2014\/12\/20\/the-forbidden-game-golf-china-washburn\" target=\"_blank\">wrote some thoughts<\/a> on the book. Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washburn focuses on the stories of three especially intriguing characters associated with the rise of golf in China, and in telling their stories he provides his readers with a sense of what the country was, is, and may become.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, they also published an excerpt from <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em>. It&#8217;s one of my favorite passages, and you can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/onlyagame.wbur.org\/2014\/12\/18\/the-forbidden-game-excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, NPR&#8217;s Bill Littlefield talked to me about The Forbidden Game and China&#8217;s complex relationship with golf for his &#8220;Only a Game&#8221; broadcast. You can listen to it here: Bill also wrote some thoughts on the book. Here&#8217;s a taste: Washburn focuses on the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[171,350,43,348,349,21],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-audio","tag-bill-littlefield","tag-interviews","tag-npr","tag-only-a-game","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","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=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}