{"id":1084,"date":"2004-08-15T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T21:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/olympic_action\/"},"modified":"2004-08-15T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2004-08-15T21:50:19","slug":"olympic_action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/olympic_action\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <a title=\"U.S. Basketball Team Loses for First Time Since 1988\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&#038;storyID=5978951\">an embarrassment<\/a>.  Looks like all the pundits who have been talking for years about the decline of the NBA have been on point.  Does the individualistic, I-can-win-this-on-raw-strength-alone approach of today&#8217;s NBA player remind anyone of any American representatives in a different field?<br \/>\nAs far as the coverage goes, I had been thinking that the more competition and the less commentary\/editing we saw, the better.  But it only took a few minutes of sailing last night to dispel that theory.  I know there are parts of the world were a number of people enjoy sailing.  But it sure isn&#8217;t much of a spectator sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/olympic_action\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Olympic Action\"><p>What an embarrassment. Looks like all the pundits who have been talking for years about the decline of the NBA have been on point. Does the individualistic, I-can-win-this-on-raw-strength-alone approach of today&#8217;s NBA player remind anyone of any American representatives in a different field? As far as the coverage goes, I had been thinking that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}