{"id":69,"date":"2014-02-13T16:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/?p=69"},"modified":"2014-02-13T16:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:15:40","slug":"awesome-thing-of-the-day-talking-to-your-golf-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"AWESOME THING OF THE DAY: Talking to your golf ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our client pointed out to us that our prototype was missing a key emotional component of golf: the moment when watch your ball arc and beg it to go into the hole.\u00a0Ben Crane, a video produce for golf\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgolfpost.com\/blog\/ball-talking-does-it-ever-listen\/\">explains<\/a>\u00a0how golfers talk to their balls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We talk to the ball in two or three ways [&#8230;] One is we kinda know what the ball is going to do so, \u2018Be good, baby,\u2019 we\u2019re kinda just affirming it was a really good shot. Then there\u2019s the time where you\u2019re like, \u2018Catch that slope and roll down.\u2019 You really don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. And then there\u2019s that time when you\u2019re begging. The ball is heading to a 50-50 place and you beg, \u2018Please stay up.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip to Salvador for sharing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our client pointed out to us that our prototype was missing a key emotional component of golf: the moment when watch your ball arc and beg it to go into the hole.\u00a0Ben Crane, a video produce for golf\u00a0explains\u00a0how golfers talk to their balls: We talk to the ball in two or three ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/septobunny\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}