{"id":911,"date":"2012-08-20T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonypioppi.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-08-20T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:03:48","slug":"augusta-national-golf-club-admits-two-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/personalities\/911\/augusta-national-golf-club-admits-two-women","title":{"rendered":"Augusta National Golf Club Admits Two Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this story from the NY Times,\u00a0 Augusta National Golf Club,\u00a0 &#8220;The home of the Masters, under increasing criticism in the last decade because of its all-male membership, invited former Secretary of State <a title=\"More articles about Condoleezza Rice.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/condoleezza_rice\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Condoleezza Rice <\/a>and the South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first women in green jackets when the club opens for a new season in October.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The women accepted.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago a friend with a lot of inside knowledge of the upper echelon of American golf predicted Rice would be the first Augusta member and eventually be picked to lead USGA, as well.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire Times story by clicking<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/21\/sports\/golf\/augusta-national-golf-club-to-add-first-two-female-members.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this story from the NY Times,\u00a0 Augusta National Golf Club,\u00a0 &#8220;The home of the Masters, under increasing criticism&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/personalities\/911\/augusta-national-golf-club-admits-two-women\" title=\"ReadAugusta National Golf Club Admits Two Women\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2980,6120,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-the-masters","category-golf","category-personalities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}