{"id":7416,"date":"2016-09-10T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2016-09-10T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:29:55","slug":"golfing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"Golfing news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time-honoured business practice of top executives celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/POETS_day\">POETS Day<\/a> on the fairway has come in for criticism from an unlikely source.<\/p>\n<p>At a Conservative Way Forward event at Westminster last week, the current international trade secretary and disgraced former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox MP is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/sep\/09\/fat-and-lazy-britain-is-ill-prepared-to-secure-future-outside-eu-says-fox\">reported<\/a> to have said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019ve got to change the culture in our country. People have got to stop thinking about exporting as an opportunity and start thinking about it as a duty \u2013 companies who could be contributing to our national prosperity but choose not to because it might be too difficult or too time-consuming or because they can\u2019t play golf on a Friday afternoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile in golfing &#8220;olds&#8221;, in April 2015, the disgraced former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox MP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liamfoxmp\/status\/587946071701250049\">tweeted<\/a> the photo below when standing for re-election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/fox_golf.png\" alt=\"tweet reads latest student golfer at Tickenham Golf Club @TickenhamGolf #GE2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"728\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/fox_golf.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/fox_golf-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old adage about glass houses and stones, isn&#8217;t there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time-honoured business practice of top executives celebrating POETS Day on the fairway has come in for criticism from an unlikely source. At a Conservative Way Forward event at Westminster last week, the current international trade secretary and disgraced former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox MP is reported to have said: We\u2019ve got to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34],"tags":[16,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7419,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/7419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}