{"id":2433,"date":"2017-11-03T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2017-11-03T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:12:28","slug":"the-vanity-handicapper-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-vanity-handicapper-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vanity Handicapper-in-Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It try so hard to stay out of politics when I&#8217;m online. No matter how egregious someone&#8217;s behavior is, there are legions who think it&#8217;s all right.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a golf blog, and one of the things I hold most dearly as a golfer is respect for the game.<\/p>\n<p>You know how you hear all the time that you learn a lot about a man&#8217;s character by playing golf with him?<\/p>\n<p>That takes me right to the Vanity Handicapper-in-Chief. His GHIN listing was released today. An even though he has played golf at least 30 times since January, this is his first posting in that period. <\/p>\n<p><img src= \"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/donald-trump-ghin-numbers-1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>Now you build a vanity handicap by only posting your better scores. But the assumption is that you actually shot those better scores.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen this man swing a golf club? You have? Then you would know.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of when Kim Jong-Il shot a 38 on a par-72 golf course in 1994 in North Korea, a round that included five holes-in one.<\/p>\n<p>Good absolute grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It try so hard to stay out of politics when I&#8217;m online. No matter how egregious someone&#8217;s behavior is, there are legions who think it&#8217;s all right. But this is a golf blog, and one of the things I hold most dearly as a golfer is respect for the game. You know how you hear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-vanity-handicapper-in-chief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Vanity Handicapper-in-Chief<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-Df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}