{"id":609,"date":"2008-07-15T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2008-07-15T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:40:59","slug":"golf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2008\/07\/15\/golf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scot McKnight writes light-heartedly on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/?p=4081#comments\">Why Golf is Better than Soccer<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 I had the opportunity to play New Jersey&#8217;s top public course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalgolfresort.com\/Content\/Articles.asp?SID=2&amp;CID=183&amp;AID=441\">Ballyowen<\/a>, twice in the past two days.\u00a0 Both days were special, with lovely weather and good playing partners, including my brother.\u00a0 Sunday I handily broke 100, which is very good for me particularly on this course, and yesterday I missed it by one shot, after a disastrous front\u00a0nine and a good back nine.\u00a0 When the afternoon shadows are falling across the fairways, a summer breeze is blowing, and the little white ball arches against a blue sky on its way to a soft landing on the green &#8212; how grateful I am to be alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scot McKnight writes light-heartedly on &#8220;Why Golf is Better than Soccer.&#8221;\u00a0 I had the opportunity to play New Jersey&#8217;s top public course, Ballyowen, twice in the past two days.\u00a0 Both days were special, with lovely weather and good playing partners, including my brother.\u00a0 Sunday I handily broke 100, which is very good for me particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-9P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}