{"id":5798,"date":"2022-12-29T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T17:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2022-12-29T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T17:33:47","slug":"golf-dreams-makes-another-favorites-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/12\/29\/golf-dreams-makes-another-favorites-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Dreams makes another favorites list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting list:  <a href=\"https:\/\/allsportsbooks.reviews\/2022\/12\/28\/the-sports-books-that-sportswriters-love-the-list\/\"><em>All Sports Book Reviews<\/em> <\/a>asked more than 150 sportswriters to name the books they really love&#8211;not what books they think are the best. Just their all-time favorites. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-10.33.43-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"177\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-10.33.43-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5799\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With a sample size that large, of course the list is long\u2014some 300 titles\u2014categorized according to sport. Updike&#8217;s celebrated <em>Hub Fan Bids Kid Adieu<\/em> didn&#8217;t make the list, but his essays on golf did. <em>Golf Dreams<\/em> was one of seven favorites that sportswriters cited for links reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other literary writers who turned up on this list include George Plimpton (<em>Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last String Quarterback<\/em>; <em>Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring<\/em>; <em>The Curious Case of Sidd Finch<\/em>), Pat Conroy (<em>My Losing Season<\/em>), Norman Mailer (<em>The Fight<\/em>), Joyce Carol Oates (<em>On Boxing<\/em>), and, of course, Richard Ford (<em>The Sportswriter<\/em>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting list: All Sports Book Reviews asked more than 150 sportswriters to name the books they really love&#8211;not what books they think are the best. Just their all-time favorites. With a sample size that large, of course the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/12\/29\/golf-dreams-makes-another-favorites-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}