{"id":2002,"date":"2015-04-06T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:01","slug":"golf-com-talks-to-me-about-chinas-revived-government-crackdown-on-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/golf-com-talks-to-me-about-chinas-revived-government-crackdown-on-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf.com talks to me about China&#8217;s &#8216;revived government crackdown&#8217; on golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/courses-and-travel\/china-closes-66-courses-revived-golf-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Madden<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There have been periodic crackdowns in the past, but Dan Washburn, managing editor of the Asia Society and the author of a book about golf in China called The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, said that course construction in China has come to an almost complete halt as the industry fears that this one could just be the beginning.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8220;It sure seems serious this time around,&#8221; Washburn told Golf.com. &#8220;I was just in Asia, and this was all anyone in the industry was talking about. The crackdown is indeed real &#8212; over dinner one night, I was shown photos of fairways with thousands of newly planted trees on them &#8212; and it appears to be far-reaching.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole story, including where I say China is &#8220;an impossible country to figure out,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/courses-and-travel\/china-closes-66-courses-revived-golf-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pete Madden: There have been periodic crackdowns in the past, but Dan Washburn, managing editor of the Asia Society and the author of a book about golf in China called The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, said that course construction in China &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[336,290,43,358,21],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-crackdowns","tag-golf-com","tag-interviews","tag-pete-madden","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}