{"id":265,"date":"2008-08-08T01:09:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-08-08T01:26:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:26:52","slug":"2008-summer-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/2008-summer-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Summer Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olympics_2008\" target=\"_blank\">Games of the XXIX Olympiad<\/a> are upon us. Will you be watching the games this year or are you planning to boycott all broadcast in protest of an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.guelphmercury.com\/Opinions\/article\/364404\" target=\"_blank\">oppressive government<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/18\/opinion\/18tue3.html\" target=\"_blank\">human rights violations<\/a> in China? (Oh great, now the blog is going to be blocked by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_firewall\" target=\"_blank\">Great Firewall<\/a>.) Though I have personally encountered Chinese researchers my age and older who have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989#Existing_issues\" target=\"_blank\">no idea<\/a> that there were ever any <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989\" target=\"_blank\">protest in Tienanmen Square<\/a>, I plan to watch the games as usual. While I am also not sure that Beijing was the best selection for host city, I don&#8217;t know that political opinions should interfere with sport and believe that the Chinese people may benefit from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2008-08-05-Olympics_N.htm?csp=34\" target=\"_blank\">eyes of the world<\/a> focusing on their government&#8230; It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/05\/AR2008080503315.html?hpid=sec-religion\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t look promising<\/a> though. (That last link is to an article about the Chinese government restricting public displays of faith, and enforcing these laws on athletes at the games. I thought it was really interesting.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/results.beijing2008.cn\/WRM\/ENG\/Schedule\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">broadcast schedule<\/a>. Hopefully the time difference won&#8217;t prevent me from catching some events live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I don&#8217;t know how Kyllan missed this; Her Alma mater, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfu.edu\/visitors\/quickfacts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wake Forest<\/a>, is r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college\/football\/usatpoll.htm?loc=interstitialskip\" target=\"_blank\">anked #23<\/a> in the preseason choaches&#8217; football poll! Is that the first top 25 preseason ranking for Wake?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Games of the XXIX Olympiad are upon us. Will you be watching the games this year or are you planning to boycott all broadcast in protest of an oppressive government and human rights violations in China? (Oh great, now the blog is going to be blocked by the Great Firewall.) Though I have personally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-4h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}