{"id":2049,"date":"2015-06-28T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:00","slug":"wsj-in-china-the-legal-status-of-many-golf-courses-is-full-of-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wsj-in-china-the-legal-status-of-many-golf-courses-is-full-of-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: In China, the Legal Status of Many Golf Courses Is Full of Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa Abkowitz writes in a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-china-the-legal-status-of-many-golf-courses-is-full-of-holes-1431563801\" target=\"_blank\">front-page story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lately, President Xi Jinping\u2019s austerity campaign has sent the sport into a sand trap: More than 60 courses have been closed and several Communist Party officials are under investigation for hitting the links.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSince the Communist Revolution, when Chairman Mao Zedong declared golf \u201ctoo bourgeois,\u201d there has been something irrepressible about the sport\u2019s rise in China. It seems only par for the course that most of China\u2019s golf courses have been built since a 2004 law banning such construction, making them technically illegal.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cYou can say it\u2019s illegal, but you almost need to put quote marks around illegal because more golf courses are getting built in China than anywhere else in the world,\u201d said Dan Washburn, author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa Abkowitz writes in a Wall Street Journal front-page story: Lately, President Xi Jinping\u2019s austerity campaign has sent the sport into a sand trap: More than 60 courses have been closed and several Communist Party officials are under investigation for hitting the links. &nbsp; Since &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[33,21,287],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-media","tag-press","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}