{"id":2180,"date":"2016-04-15T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2016-09-24T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T04:01:49","slug":"epoch-times-no-the-chinese-communist-party-didnt-just-make-golf-legal-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/epoch-times-no-the-chinese-communist-party-didnt-just-make-golf-legal-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Epoch Times: No, the Chinese Communist Party Didn\u2019t Just Make Golf Legal in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ong writes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/2026013-no-the-chinese-communist-party-didnt-just-make-golf-legal-in-china\/?utm_expid=21082672-12.JPI1vw8-RKyYhrWpuuXhuA.0&#038;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Epoch Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dan Washburn, the leading authority on golf in China and author of \u201cThe Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream,\u201d told the Washington Post: \u201cAs is common in China, the regulation\u2019s language does seem vague, perhaps purposefully so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the simple fact remains: No Chinese government official should be able to afford to play golf in the first place,\u201d Washburn added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ong writes for Epoch Times: Dan Washburn, the leading authority on golf in China and author of \u201cThe Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream,\u201d told the Washington Post: \u201cAs is common in China, the regulation\u2019s language does seem vague, perhaps purposefully so.\u201d \u201cBut &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[381,33,21],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-epoch-times","tag-media","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","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=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}