{"id":85,"date":"2004-08-05T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2004-08-05T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T18:57:18","slug":"sooo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/08\/05\/sooo\/","title":{"rendered":"sooo&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;does anyone <em>care<\/em> that the Summer Olympics start in a couple weeks? I know I&#8217;m having a hard time pretending to be interested. It&#8217;s really sad, because the folks that are participating have been working hard to get there, and deserve some respect and appreciation, but it&#8217;s been hard to come by. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big sponsor show, and that&#8217;s what I think of it now. Not games, not competition, not sport, not amateurs, and certainly nothing pure. I&#8217;ve seen more pictures of the Nike suit that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/indepth\/felicien\/\">Perdita Felicien<\/a> is wearing than anything else. I&#8217;ve seen $40 &#8220;Canada&#8221; t-shirts at Roots. I see the Canadian Olympic logo on everything at work (we&#8217;re a sponsor).  I read about the NBA stars from down south self-destructing, WTA members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/olympics\/news_story.asp?id=93574\">threatening to boycott<\/a> the games because Germany has higher standards for team membership than others, and multiple stories about how Greece really sucks at getting ready for the games. <\/p>\n<p>Gosh &#8211; all this talk about logistical quagmires and pros that make too much money sucking and bitching &#8211; that really gets me interested.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt I&#8217;ll watch any of it, it&#8217;s just so full of shit. Besides, you just know that there&#8217;ll be some doping allegations at some point, which adds a layer of tarnish to everything no matter how true or untrue the allegations are. <\/p>\n<p>How sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;does anyone care that the Summer Olympics start in a couple weeks? I know I&#8217;m having a hard time pretending to be interested. It&#8217;s really sad, because the folks that are participating have been working hard to get there, and deserve some respect and appreciation, but it&#8217;s been hard to come by. It&#8217;s a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}