{"id":7215,"date":"2009-10-14T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2024-05-29T21:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T02:38:54","slug":"golf-in-cross-hairs-of-venezuelas-president-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/10\/14\/golf-in-cross-hairs-of-venezuelas-president-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf In Cross Hairs Of Venezuela&#8217;s President : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people know that I have little use for golf. I think courses are a waste of property and help create an environment of smug privilege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, I also don&#8217;t have a whole lot to say about Hugo Chavez. I admire his goals but really think being a thug is absolutely the wrong way to go about it. That said, I kinda like his plans to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=113781755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">take over Venezuela&#8217;s golf courses<\/a>&nbsp;and turn them into public parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just to add fuel to the fire for doing something similar here, the Secret Service is investigating an incident at a Massachusetts golf course where&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/wires\/2009\/10\/13\/swastika-obama-carved-int_ws_319331.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a swastika was carved next to the President&#8217;s name<\/a>, presumably by a golf cleat.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/10\/14\/us_authorities_investigate_lakeville_vandalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here&#8217;s a local report<\/a>&nbsp;on the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"353\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?resize=625%2C353&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?resize=1024%2C579&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?resize=768%2C434&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?resize=1536%2C868&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?resize=624%2C353&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?w=1799&amp;ssl=1 1799w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-432.png?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this is in supposedly liberal Massachusetts. We already know how the traitors down South feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know that I have little use for golf. I think courses are a waste of property and help create an environment of smug privilege. Now, I also don&#8217;t have a whole lot to say about Hugo Chavez. I admire his goals but really think being a thug is absolutely the wrong way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","category-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7217,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}