{"id":399,"date":"2004-08-13T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-10-08T07:26:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T07:26:57","slug":"397-of-the-olympics-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"[397] Of the Olympics again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics has officially begun!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Fair use. Associated Press pool photo by Ben Curtis of the Aug. 13 Opening Ceremonies fireworks display.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/2004OlympicsOpeningCeremonyFireworks.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Thank goodness they managed to complete the Olympics Stadium.And, just to show how unpopular Bush&#8217;s foreign policy is, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2004_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As a reflection of the unpopularity of the American-led War on Iraq, many audience members protested the entrance of the American delegation into the stadium by making a thumbs-down gesture.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; Somebody just auctioned <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=5914946572\">5000 Blogshares chips on EBay<\/a>. It is priced at $22.56 now. Damn, that is free money!<\/p>\n<p>If the admins of Blogshares do not do anything, soon, real money will be used for trades on Blogshares. But damn! $22.56 for something that is not even real!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics has officially begun! Thank goodness they managed to complete the Olympics Stadium.And, just to show how unpopular Bush&#8217;s foreign policy is, according to Wikipedia: As a reflection of the unpopularity of the American-led War on Iraq, many audience members protested the entrance of the American delegation into the stadium by making a thumbs-down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}