{"id":195,"date":"2007-09-18T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/09\/18\/golf-and-me\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T10:20:33","slug":"golf-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/09\/18\/golf-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf And Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI participated in a charity golf outing this weekend for my friend Dave.  We had a good group, but were definitely in the losers&#39; bracket. I had never played anything other than some par 3 and miniput, so it was all new to me. After completing my first round of 18, I think I can sum up golf as &quot;a good walk spoiled.&quot; However, beer and an electric car can definitely unspoil. That quote is from Mark Twain, which is Internet confirmed (as in not) here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat page also has some other fun facts:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;Mark Twain was his User ID, Samuel Clemens [was] the name.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;The Golf responded to this harsh but truthful criticism with the invention of the golfing-car. A golfing-car is a little car you can follow your ball around in.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBrilliant. See you at the driving range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in a charity golf outing this weekend for my friend Dave.  We had a good group, but were definitely in the losers&#39; bracket. I had never played anything other than some par 3 and miniput, so it was all new to me. After completing my first round of 18, I think I can sum up golf as &quot;a good walk spoiled.&quot; However, beer and an electric car can definitely unspoil. That quote is from Mark Twain, which is Internet confirmed (as in not) here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat page also has some other fun facts:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;Mark Twain was his User ID, Samuel Clemens [was] the name.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;The Golf responded to this harsh but truthful criticism with the invention of the golfing-car. A golfing-car is a little car you can follow your ball around in.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBrilliant. See you at the driving range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}