{"id":2178,"date":"2016-04-14T23:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T03:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2016-09-23T23:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T03:54:03","slug":"wapo-the-latest-surprising-twist-in-chinas-love-hate-relationship-with-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wapo-the-latest-surprising-twist-in-chinas-love-hate-relationship-with-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The latest surprising twist in China\u2019s love-hate relationship with golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Taylor writes in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/04\/14\/the-latest-surprising-twist-in-chinas-love-hate-relationship-with-golf\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dan Washburn, perhaps the foremost Western expert on golf in China and author of &#8220;The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream,&#8221; says that the idea that golf has been made legal is a misinterpretation of the previous guidelines: Golf was never actually illegal in China for either average citizens or party members, he argues. &#8220;As is common in China, the regulation\u2019s language does seem vague, perhaps purposefully so,&#8221; Washburn writes in an email. &#8220;It doesn\u2019t explicitly say that Party members are forbidden to play golf, just that they can\u2019t own golf memberships.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Taylor writes in The Washington Post: Dan Washburn, perhaps the foremost Western expert on golf in China and author of &#8220;The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream,&#8221; says that the idea that golf has been made legal is a misinterpretation of the previous &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[33,21,359],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-media","tag-press","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}