{"id":2008,"date":"2015-04-06T17:33:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:01","slug":"quoted-in-afp-story-on-china-closing-66-illegal-golf-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/quoted-in-afp-story-on-china-closing-66-illegal-golf-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoted in AFP story on China closing 66 &#8216;illegal&#8217; golf courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made an oh-so-current <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yakov_Smirnoff#.22America:_What_a_country.21.22\" target=\"_blank\">Yakov Smirnoff<\/a> reference on Twitter \u2014\u00a0and it got picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/china-closes-66-illegal-golf-courses-032913376--golf.html\" target=\"_blank\">the AFP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Government officials keen on joining golf clubs often do so under false names, wary of being perceived as corrupt or out of touch, according to Dan Washburn, author of &#8220;The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Washburn pointed out on Twitter that the closure announcement came days after news that US star Tiger Woods was to be paid $16.5 million to redesign a course in the capital. &#8220;What a country!&#8221; he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the now famous tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>China crackdown shuts 66 golf courses <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/E1xUDP2Vo6\">http:\/\/t.co\/E1xUDP2Vo6<\/a> Tiger to get $16.5m for Beijing redesign <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/hYC4TtD86e\">http:\/\/t.co\/hYC4TtD86e<\/a> What a country!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Washburn (@danwashburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danwashburn\/status\/582622054974951424\">March 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made an oh-so-current Yakov Smirnoff reference on Twitter \u2014\u00a0and it got picked up by the AFP: Government officials keen on joining golf clubs often do so under false names, wary of being perceived as corrupt or out of touch, according to Dan Washburn, author &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[361,336,21,360],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-afp","tag-crackdowns","tag-press","tag-quoted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}