{"id":174,"date":"2013-06-11T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2013-06-10T03:43:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:43:32","slug":"how-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/how-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are you, a couch potato? Let\u2019s start the week by seeking out some audiobooks about actually playing a sport. Of course, merely listening to the book doesn\u2019t actually work any muscle groups or teach you valuable skills, but it puts you in the mood to play a sport.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s assume that you aren\u2019t looking for a book to learn a team sport. Most of us learn those at an early age, from coaches, parents and other kids. If you think that the best starting place is a book, you\u2019re probably already an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Want to play golf? Here\u2019s what people who already play \u2013 or, at least, are PGA Facebook fans \u2013 recommend: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pga.com\/news\/quick-nine\/best-golf-book-youve-ever-read\">the nine best golf books ever<\/a>. And check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/#!p=browse&amp;id=4402&amp;general=0\">golf collection<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playmoderntennis.com\/Recommended-Tennis-Books.html\">tennis<\/a>? (I\u2019ve avoided Venus and Serena Williams\u2019 \u2018How to Play Tennis\u2019 in the grounds that you\u2019ll just have sand kicked in your self esteem)<\/p>\n<p>And something less active? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyofbocce.com\/\">The Joy of Bocce<\/a>. Don&#8217;t worry if you haven&#8217;t heard of Bocce. You&#8217;ll know it when you see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you, a couch potato? Let\u2019s start the week by seeking out some audiobooks about actually playing a sport. Of course, merely listening to the book doesn\u2019t actually work any muscle groups or teach you valuable skills, but it puts you in the mood to play a sport. Let\u2019s assume that you aren\u2019t looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/how-to-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How To Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}