{"id":359,"date":"2006-02-10T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/wordpress\/?p=359"},"modified":"2006-02-10T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T13:00:43","slug":"the-winter-olympics-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"The Winter Olympics start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so kewl.  I have always loved to watch the olympics as its a great time to watch, as Al Michaels put it so clearly, &#8220;The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat&#8221;.  I think it was in 1980 that i really paid attention to the winter olympics in Lake Placid and how I got hooked onto hockey, when I watched TEAM USA defeat the big red giant USSR to get the spot fo the gold medal game. <\/p>\n<p>The very kewl thing about living here amongst the europeans is that I get to watch for the second time around, (first being the 2004 Summer Games in Athens) is the 2006 Torin Games are only 1 hour behind our time (e.g. if its 15:00 (3pm) in Helsinki, then its 14:00 or 2pm in Torin).. so again, I am watching it live and nothing taped delayed like it ususally is in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>More comments to on the olympics during the next two weeks.  I think I will be concentrating on the hockey games, and downhill skiing.. Bodie and Palander (the US Guy and the Finn) will be interesting to watch. &#8212; sorry everyone -GO FINLAND!  =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so kewl. I have always loved to watch the olympics as its a great time to watch, as Al Michaels put it so clearly, &#8220;The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat&#8221;. I think it was in 1980 that i really paid attention to the winter olympics in Lake Placid and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}