{"id":376,"date":"2016-06-05T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=376"},"modified":"2016-06-05T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T05:10:08","slug":"why-is-golf-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Why is golf a thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I lost all patience for chasing a tiny ball around an unnecessarily large field. My complete lack of skill and aptitude combined with the sunburn and insect bites finally took its toll. I vowed never to swing a club again. But after taking a few years off, the memories of the pain and suffering faded and I decided to give it another try. I never do anything halfway, so I invested in new clubs, a new bag, and a bunch of accessories that I\u2019ll probably never need. I still suck at golf; that was confirmed today.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/End-of-Suffering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-377 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/End-of-Suffering-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"End of Suffering\" width=\"189\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/End-of-Suffering-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/End-of-Suffering-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/End-of-Suffering-676x901.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Random musings about today&#8217;s charity golf scramble:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drinking a beer before noon is generally a bad idea.<\/li>\n<li>I had about three decent shots all day.<\/li>\n<li>I lost approximately 11 golf balls.<\/li>\n<li>If there was an official statistic for divot distance, I would hold a record.<\/li>\n<li>Golf carts should have seatbelts and doors.<\/li>\n<li>Golf was invented by some drunk guys in Scotland. They would have been proud to see the calamity that ensues when a bunch of drunk golfers decide to play bumper cars with the carts.<\/li>\n<li>I should really take some lessons.<\/li>\n<li>I now refer to the 18<sup>th<\/sup> hole as The End of Suffering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I lost all patience for chasing a tiny ball around an unnecessarily large field. My complete lack of skill and aptitude combined with the sunburn and insect bites finally took its toll. I vowed never to swing a club again. But after taking a few years off, the memories of the pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}