{"id":238,"date":"2011-03-23T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomharack.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2011-03-25T02:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:55:46","slug":"player-stands-test-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/personalities\/238\/player-stands-test-of-time","title":{"rendered":"Player Stands Test Of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/03\/1961-Mastersv2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-241\" title=\"1961 Mastersv2\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/03\/1961-Mastersv2-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>Some people \u2013 and golf courses \u2013 just seem to hold up better than others. When Gary Player won the Masters 50 years ago, Augusta National played hundreds of yards shorter than today. It\u2019s undergone more procedures than Joan Rivers &#8211;redesign, renovation, \u201cmodernized\u201d numerous times &#8212; while The Black Knight has remained steadfast and remarkably unchanged. Cosmetics aside, he exudes the same earnest energy he always has.<\/p>\n<p>My admiration for sports heroes has generally been confined to amazement at what\u2019s been described as their \u201cphysical genius.\u201d Attempts to connect this to outstanding character teeter on the sycophantic. Player\u2019s candor in analyzing golf\u2019s current dilemma \u2013 a function, he says, mostly of greed \u2013 makes him an unusual and refreshing role model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people \u2013 and golf courses \u2013 just seem to hold up better than others. When Gary Player won the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/personalities\/238\/player-stands-test-of-time\" title=\"ReadPlayer Stands Test Of Time\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6120,7],"tags":[2158,1016129,1235],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-the-masters","category-personalities","tag-gary-player","tag-the-masters","tag-augusta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/03\/1961-Mastersv2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}