{"id":5886,"date":"2009-10-02T20:43:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T00:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2009-10-02T20:43:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T00:43:36","slug":"chicago-and-the-olympics-no-we-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/chicago-and-the-olympics-no-we-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago and the Olympics: No, we can\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How could the IOC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8288143.stm\" target=\"_blank\">resist<\/a> Obama the charmer?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olympic &#8216;losers&#8217; stunned and dismayed.<\/p>\n<p>BBC correspondents in Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid witness scenes of dejection after the vote that gave the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>As the crowds headed off down the city&#8217;s concrete canyons, an Olympic banner, plastered across the side of Daley Plaza, invited citizens to &#8220;Imagine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After today, they will have to imagine something else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could the IOC resist Obama the charmer? Olympic &#8216;losers&#8217; stunned and dismayed. BBC correspondents in Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid witness scenes of dejection after the vote that gave the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro. As the crowds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/chicago-and-the-olympics-no-we-cant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[2215],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}