{"id":343,"date":"2021-06-09T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T01:48:40","slug":"gold-southeast-alaska-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Golf, Southeast Alaska style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These two pictures represent Craig, Alaska\u2019s answer to a driving range. We are crammed onto two tiny islands joined by man-made causeways (see the picture in my right-hand widget column), and there is no flat ground anywhere to be had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Driving-range-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344\" width=\"675\" height=\"506\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Driving-range-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345\" width=\"675\" height=\"506\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a time when I laughed at golf, declaring smugly that it couldn\u2019t possibly be a real sport if you needed a buggy to drive you around on your athletic endeavors. That is, I laughed until I tried it. When my husband Scott and I were visiting his parents in their retirement community in Arizona, we went to the golf course. There, I learned two things: first, don\u2019t go early in the morning, because they use recycled water to irrigate the green; and second, driving a golf ball takes strength, precision, and practice. One of several takeaways I had from this experience is that golf carts are fine for two reasons: first, they are fun to drive; and second, you don\u2019t need to be walking a marathon on top of playing your game of golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here\u2019s to not being a hero, to learning new things, and to making things work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two pictures represent Craig, Alaska\u2019s answer to a driving range. We are crammed onto two tiny islands joined by man-made causeways (see the picture in my right-hand widget column), and there is no flat ground anywhere to be had. There was a time when I laughed at golf, declaring smugly that it couldn\u2019t possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[185,184,15],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-an-alaskan-educator-and-citizen","tag-driving-range","tag-golf","tag-southeast-alaska"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}