{"id":10296,"date":"2021-07-26T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10296"},"modified":"2021-07-26T07:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:18:38","slug":"breaking-the-golf-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/26\/breaking-the-golf-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the golf fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Me, Nancy and Roger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Partly due to Jett’s illness and partly due to the pandemic, I had not golfed since the summer of 2019 – 2 years! That golf fast came to an end a couple of days ago with a round that I played with college friend Roger, his wife Nancy and their son Rigel. I was terrible, of course, no surprise there. But I did make a handful of really nice shots – enough to convince me that I could be really good if only I played more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such is the seduction of the game of golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This turned out to be a physical ordeal. Due to the wet July weather, the course was very soggy (I can blame the conditions for my poor score). So soggy that we decided to walk <\/em>rather than get a golf cart that would just get bogged down in the mud. So I carried my heavy golf bag over 6,000 yards (more than 3 miles) in temperate (high 70s) but very humid conditions. By the time I got back to the RV I was so exhausted that I sat for an hour and did nothing but drink lemonade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Partly due to Jett’s illness and partly due to the pandemic, I had not golfed since the summer of 2019 – 2 years! That golf fast came to an end a couple of days ago with a round that I played with college friend Roger, his wife Nancy and their son Rigel. I was terrible, … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-places","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2G4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}