{"id":1588,"date":"2010-02-18T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:11:03","slug":"2010-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/18\/2010-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/02\/800px-olympic_rings_svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1593\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/02\/800px-olympic_rings_svg.png?w=300\" alt=\"Olympic rings\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>(This image is in the public domain because its copyright has <strong>expired<\/strong>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even if you\u2019re not a sports fan, you probably have seen some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Winter Olympics <\/a> being held in Canada, specifically Vancouver, British Columbia. The United States is currently leading the medal race with 14, followed by Germany with 10, and France with 7. Last night I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/olympic-snowboard\/athletes\/shaun-white_ath1023740ln.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun White <\/a>win the Gold Medal in the Snowboard Men&#8217;s Halfpipe. WOW! His first run earned him 46.8 points (out of a possible 50).\u00a0 No need to make a second run, but he did. Why? For some people, it&#8217;s not just about winning.\u00a0Listen to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QyXnyAHzEsc\">what Shaun said after the run<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting about other events as the games continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me know which event is your favorite:<\/strong> [polldaddy poll=2721283] <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.) Even if you\u2019re not a sports fan, you probably have seen some of the 2010 Winter Olympics being held in Canada, specifically Vancouver, British Columbia. The United States is currently leading the medal race with 14, followed by Germany with 10, and France [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[201,222,354,452,456],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-technology","tag-gold-medal","tag-halfpipe","tag-olympics","tag-shaun-white","tag-snowboarding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}