{"id":2562,"date":"2011-05-27T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwallach.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2011-05-27T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T23:59:27","slug":"myworstgolftravelexperience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/2562\/myworstgolftravelexperience","title":{"rendered":"My Worst Golf Travel Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a golf trip to Turkey\u2019s terrific Belek region I was unfortunate to be traveling with the quintessential \u201cugly American.\u201d\u00a0If our hosts took us to the famous fish restaurant, she was in the mood for meat and asked for it. The next day, when we were entertained at the famous kabob restaurant, she wondered if they didn\u2019t have any fish. If someone else\u2019s room was higher than hers in the hotel she complained to the front desk. On tours, as soon as our guide finished explaining something, she\u2019d ask a question that he\u2019d just answered. And at one golf course, she actually told the pro that he should give our group of journalists gifts so we\u2019d be sure to remember his property.\u00a0Being the most gracious of hosts, the Turks never let on that she was anything other than reasonable. I learned from this to be grateful for everything that I\u2019m lucky enough to be given, and also that it\u2019s okay to want to punch a woman in the face.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2563\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/431px-ConstantinoAriasUglyAmerican.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2563\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/431px-ConstantinoAriasUglyAmerican.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ugly American, the Male of the Species.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a golf trip to Turkey\u2019s terrific Belek region I was unfortunate to be traveling with the quintessential \u201cugly American.\u201d\u00a0If&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/2562\/myworstgolftravelexperience\" title=\"ReadMy Worst Golf Travel Experience\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10373],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses-and-travel","tag-worsttravelexperience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/431px-ConstantinoAriasUglyAmerican.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}