{"id":11336,"date":"2012-04-27T15:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2012-04-27T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:57:38","slug":"in-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/in-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has an article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelnoer\/2012\/04\/05\/how-to-cheat-at-golf-without-the-guilt\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Cheat at Golf &#8212; Without the Guilt<\/a> which called into question today the definition for a word that I&#8217;ve used on occasion.  That word?  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/par\" target=\"_blank\">Par<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Forbes<\/em> article says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2. PAR IS AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM.<\/p>\n<p>Give it up. Of those golfers who register with the USGA for an official handicap (just one out of five players), a mere 0.7% can be considered \u201cscratch\u201d golfers, meaning they actually have a sporting chance of shooting par over 18 holes. You are not one of these superhumans. Instead try this psychological trick: Consider every hole on the course a par-5. Shoot a 5 on every hole and you\u2019ll get a 90, which is great, all things considered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So often we use <em>par<\/em> to mean, well, mean or median.  <em>Average<\/em>.  It&#8217;s from the Latin for <em>equal<\/em>, after all.  But if you look at the golf leaderboard, you&#8217;ll see that half of the field is not above par, nor are the leaders so far above the rest of the field to set par at the mean statistical definition.<\/p>\n<p>No, in golfing terms, <em>par<\/em> is set arbitrarily by the golf course designers or professionals, and it&#8217;s a standard that most golfers can&#8217;t meet.<\/p>\n<p>Please update your preferred metaphors and clich\u00e9s appropriately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has an article entitled How to Cheat at Golf &#8212; Without the Guilt which called into question today the definition for a word that I&#8217;ve used on occasion. That word? Par. The Forbes article says: 2. PAR IS AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM. Give it up. Of those golfers who register with the USGA for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}