{"id":963,"date":"2010-09-22T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parforchina.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:09","slug":"headed-out-of-town-and-not-by-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/headed-out-of-town-and-not-by-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Headed out of town (and not by helicopter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post to notify you that I likely won&#8217;t be posting much here for the coming weeks. I do have some good excuses this time, however. This evening I am off for an eight-day trip to rural China, where I will be conducting research for my book (of which I will have some good news to announce very soon). Then, after 36 hours back in Shanghai, I head to Japan to cover the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianamateurchampionship.com\/\">Asian Amateur Championship<\/a> for <em>Golf World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, not sure when (or if) I will have a chance to get to the posts that have been occupying my head recently, including: Taiwanese golfer Yani Tseng&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinapost.com.tw\/sports\/golf\/2010\/09\/19\/273124\/Yani-Tseng.htm\">reported refusal<\/a> of a US$25 million offer from a &#8220;Chinese enterprise&#8221; to become a Chinese citizen and play for China (commentary <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.golf.com\/presstent\/2010\/09\/truth-and-rumors-tseng-rejects-chinese-offer.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/21\/david-moulton-patriotism-yani-tseng-china-golf\/\">here<\/a>); and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jslbIpCAJYcScYshIBH2dLTpi5VQ\">debatable comments<\/a> on the future of Chinese golf from Asian Tour head Kyi Hla Han (Note to Mr. Han: There are still domestic golf tournaments for Chinese pros \u2014\u00a0more than last year, actually \u2014 the organizers just happen to be pretty bad at PR).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, perhaps none of this Golf-in-China stuff matters anymore. According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/012c2330-ba84-11df-8e5c-00144feab49a.html\"><em>Financial Times<\/em> story<\/a>, the golf fad may already be pass\u00e9 here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLearning to fly a helicopter is becoming a new hobby in China as rich people are getting tired of golf and cars,\u201d says Guan Xiwen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t throw out your clubs just yet, however. Mr. Guan may not be the most objective of sources \u2014 he&#8217;s general manger of a helicopter pilot school in Guangzhou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post to notify you that I likely won&#8217;t be posting much here for the coming weeks. I do have some good excuses this time, however. This evening I am off for an eight-day trip to rural China, where I will be conducting research &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,127,128,25,4,7,129,130,131,132,133,134],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-airwolf","tag-asian-amateur-championship","tag-asian-tour","tag-book","tag-china","tag-golf","tag-helicopters","tag-japan","tag-kyi-hla-han","tag-research","tag-taiwan","tag-yani-tseng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}