{"id":2836,"date":"2008-04-04T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/04\/the-bejing-olympics\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T23:40:38","slug":"the-bejing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/04\/the-bejing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bejing Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Chinese, along with a smattering of &#8220;Free Tibet&#8221; &#8212; um &#8212; hippies of a somewhat strong bent to them (the type that might have real trail mix with rocks included in them.\u00c2\u00a0 I mention this because I saw a few frighten some MAX riders.) [Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with it] &#8212; regularly protest the Bejing Olympics at Pioneer Square and across the street, calling on us all to boycott due to the atrocious human rights record of China.<\/p>\n<p>I agree.\u00c2\u00a0 I will categorically state right here and now that I will not be competing in the 2008 Bejing Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Chinese, along with a smattering of &#8220;Free Tibet&#8221; &#8212; um &#8212; hippies of a somewhat strong bent to them (the type that might have real trail mix with rocks included in them.\u00c2\u00a0 I mention this because I saw a few frighten some MAX riders.) [Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with it] &#8212; regularly protest [&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-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}