{"id":6980,"date":"2017-04-14T06:53:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/?p=6980"},"modified":"2017-04-14T06:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:53:55","slug":"the-golf-ball-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/the-golf-ball-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golf Ball Man&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The island lost Nelson Smith this last week. In addition to being a great person, great neighbor and friend, Nelson would spend some of his later days wondering the road and bushes along holes 4 and 5 searching for balls with a long stick, filling his basket and delivering them to me at the club for the &#8220;kids &#8221; . Most of you will remember Nelson as a Chappy Ferry captain in the &#8220;Jaws Era &#8221; and beyond. There is a great piece on him in the opinion section the gazette online written by tom Dunlop. The photo \u00a0is from the Gazette taken by Mark Lovewell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6981\" src=\"http:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ml_nelson_smith-608x403.jpg\" alt=\"ml_nelson_smith\" width=\"608\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ml_nelson_smith-608x403.jpg 608w, https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ml_nelson_smith-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ml_nelson_smith.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The island lost Nelson Smith this last week. In addition to being a great person, great neighbor and friend, Nelson would spend some of his later days wondering the road and bushes along holes 4 and 5 searching for balls with a long stick, filling his basket and delivering them to me at the club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edgartowngolfclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}