{"id":3074,"date":"2013-07-30T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2013-07-30T13:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:50:44","slug":"mahan-is-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Mahan is the man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hunter Mahan is now a hero to expectant mothers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>OK, he\u2019s not exactly a household name, but he\u2019s going to become one in short order.<\/p>\n<p>Mahan is a professional golfer. This past week he was leading the Canadian Open after the first round when his cellphone rang. His pregnant wife was on the other end telling her hubby she was going into labor. With that bit of news, Mahan said \u201cgoodbye\u201d to his caddie and his fellow golf pros and headed home to be at his wife\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big deal for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, it demonstrates to men all over the planet the importance of family. No matter how important you think your job may be, or how big a deal it is for you to complete whatever transaction in which you are engaged, nothing matters if you don\u2019t take care of things at home.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Mahan stood to make a lot of money this weekend. Had he kept his lead at the Canadian Open and won the event, he would have pocketed more than a million bucks. That\u2019s a lot of money in anyone\u2019s book, but the young man has made a good bit more than that already on the Professional Golfers Association tour. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s money he would dismiss as so much chump change.<\/p>\n<p>I trust his wife \u2013 despite his surrendering a substantial payday \u2013 was glad to see him.<\/p>\n<p>With all the male misbehavior being reported these days in and out of the sports world, this story ought to make any red-blooded man \u2013 not to mention expectant mothers \u2013 feel good. Well done, Hunter.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Mahan is now a hero to expectant mothers around the world. OK, he\u2019s not exactly a household name, but he\u2019s going to become one in short order. Mahan is a professional golfer. This past week he was leading the Canadian Open after the first round when his cellphone rang. His pregnant wife was on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahan is the man<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2219,3585],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hunte-mahan","tag-pga-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}