{"id":2450,"date":"2008-04-29T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2008-04-29T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:40:47","slug":"taylormade-hooks-up-war-amputees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"TaylorMade Hooks Up War Amputees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/080429veterans220.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/080429veterans220.jpg','popup','width=220,height=296,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/080429veterans220-tm.jpg\" height=\"269\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"080429Veterans220\" \/><\/a>Nothing makes us feel worse about what our country is doing in Iraq than seeing America&#8217;s valiant, courageous young servicemen and women coming home missing limbs. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, at Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormadegolf.com\/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">TaylorMade Golf<\/a><\/strong> headquarters three young amputees were treated like PGA pros. They received  complete sets of golf clubs and swing training with the world renowned golf coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1755\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Flick<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/golf\/20080429-9999-1s29pagefore.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This day was dubbed &#8220;Operation: Game On!&#8221; by Tony Perez, the San Diegan who had the idea for the project. Perez, the president of the local Pin Pals golf program for underprivileged youth, is a Vietnam veteran who wanted to do something special for wounded military personnel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Tony and TaylorMade for setting such a great example for all of us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/golf\/20080429-9999-1s29pagefore.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing makes us feel worse about what our country is doing in Iraq than seeing America&#8217;s valiant, courageous young servicemen and women coming home missing limbs. Yesterday, at Carlsbad&#8217;s TaylorMade Golf headquarters three young amputees were treated like PGA pros. They received complete sets of golf clubs and swing training with the world renowned golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}