{"id":2183,"date":"2016-05-09T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T04:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2016-09-24T00:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T04:05:47","slug":"ibt-can-the-olympics-save-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/ibt-can-the-olympics-save-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"IBT: Can The Olympics Save Golf?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Marcin writes in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/road-rio-can-olympics-save-golf-2362892\" target=\"_blank\">International Business Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe question has always been: Will Olympic success in golf equal a golf boom in China?\u201d said Dan Washburn, author of \u201cThe Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream.\u201d \u201cIt was and remains a down time for the golf industry in China, but at the same time as all of these crackdowns, China did start funneling a lot of money \u2014 an unprecedented amount of money \u2014 into its Olympic golf program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that China\u2019s focus on medal counts could help grow the game, Washburn said. But Beijing could turn against the sport at any time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of very smart people have been made to look very dumb by trying to predict what\u2019s going to happen in China,\u201d Washburn said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Marcin writes in the International Business Times: \u201cThe question has always been: Will Olympic success in golf equal a golf boom in China?\u201d said Dan Washburn, author of \u201cThe Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream.\u201d \u201cIt was and remains a down time for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[379,33,21],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-international-business-times","tag-media","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","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=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}