{"id":2171,"date":"2015-10-22T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2016-09-23T23:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T03:32:55","slug":"listen-china-has-seen-the-enemy-and-it-is-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/listen-china-has-seen-the-enemy-and-it-is-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: China has seen the enemy, and it is golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-10-22\/china-has-seen-enemy-and-it-golf\" target=\"_blank\">interview with PRI<\/a> on China&#8217;s ongoing crackdown on golf:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes. Golf. That seemingly most Western of sports is a unique prism on modern China. Many Chinese want to play, but the Communist Party doesn&#8217;t like the game. And today, Communist Party officials officially barred its 88 million members from belonging to a golf club.<\/p>\n<p>But the ban is part of Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s drive to root out extravagance and corruption. For golf has played a role in recent high-profile corruption cases in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a historically bad year for golf in China and that&#8217;s really saying a lot,&#8221; says Dan Washburn, author of &#8220;The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream.&#8221; &#8220;The game has never really been welcomed with open arms by the country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to my interview with PRI on China&#8217;s ongoing crackdown on golf: Yes. Golf. That seemingly most Western of sports is a unique prism on modern China. Many Chinese want to play, but the Communist Party doesn&#8217;t like the game. And today, Communist Party officials &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[43,33,378,21],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-interviews","tag-media","tag-pre","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","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=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}