{"id":61,"date":"2004-08-22T04:12:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=61"},"modified":"2004-08-22T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2004-08-22T22:50:24","slug":"the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitten By The Olympic Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until about 6 hours ago, I hadn&#8217;t seen any of the Olympics this year. I more than made up for that tonight, by watching almost 6 hours straight of <acronym title=\"National Broadcast Corporation\">NBC<\/acronym> olympic coverage. Sure, I channel surfed during the breaks, but most of the time was spent watching the athletes. Of Course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointedmagazine.com\/030920avpfivbnissanopen.htm\">some athletes<\/a> I watched more closely than others, but it the things they all do are amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s highlights for me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men&#8217;s Swimming Medley Relay: US Team continues its dominace with a world record time.<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Beach Volleyball: Hot US women (Walsh and May, see above) defeat China. Take that, commies!<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s 100m dash: Three US athletes advance, each winning their heat in under 10 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s Soccer: Iraq wins 1-0 to advance to semifinals. Shi&#8217;ites, Sunis, and Kurds in Greece all cheer together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Too bad I wasn&#8217;t sleeping. My sleep schedule has got to be one of the most erratic out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until about 6 hours ago, I hadn&#8217;t seen any of the Olympics this year. I more than made up for that tonight, by watching almost 6 hours straight of NBC olympic coverage. Sure, I channel surfed during the breaks, but most of the time was spent watching the athletes. Of Course, some athletes I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}