{"id":278,"date":"2014-03-10T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-03-08T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T19:13:44","slug":"short-film-putt-putt-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/short-film-putt-putt-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Short film: &#8220;Putt-Putt Perfection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mduzyj.com\/\">Mickey Duzyj<\/a>\u00a0&amp; friends tell the entirely charming story of an extremely rare thing\u2014a perfect game of putt-putt:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYYvXUMVeQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/the-triangle\/putt-putt-perfection\/\">Grantland<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On April 9, 2011, at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, an IT manager named Rick Baird notched 18 straight hole-in-one shots to record a perfect putt-putt score. In more than 50 years of sanctioned competition, it was just the third time that anyone had achieved the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Putt-putt is different from miniature golf. It\u2019s played only on official courses; there are no pirate ships, no windmills, and no holes that cannot be conquered with one stroke \u2014 if you execute the perfect shot. On that day in 2011, Baird executed the perfect shot 18 times in a row.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tYYvXUMVeQo\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrator\u00a0Mickey Duzyj\u00a0&amp; friends tell the entirely charming story of an extremely rare thing\u2014a perfect game of putt-putt: From Grantland: On April 9, 2011, at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, an IT manager named Rick Baird notched 18 straight hole-in-one shots to record a perfect putt-putt score. In more than 50 years of sanctioned competition, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}