{"id":1356,"date":"2012-05-28T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2012-05-28T06:51:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T06:51:36","slug":"olympic-overkill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Gold medal in overkill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/olympictorch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1371\" title=\"olympictorch\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/olympictorch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/olympictorch.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/olympictorch-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/olympics\/olympic-news\/london-olympics-2012-heroine-of-helmand-lights-up-the-cheering-crowds-on-torch-parade-7781806.html\" target=\"_blank\">Evening Standard<\/a><\/em> captured the moment my gag reflex kicked in. It wasn&#8217;t the woman carrying the Olympic flame (ignoring here how being part of an invasion force makes you a heroine), or the 7,999 other torch bearers, some of whom are sharing their moment on eBay in attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2012\/may\/19\/olympic-torch-ebay-uk?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">recoup their investment<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t the ostentatious escort &amp; support structure. It was the media-driven need for a photo-op in which there is so little faith that the picture itself is worth the traditional thousand words that IT NEEDS TO BE SPELLED OUT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evening Standard captured the moment my gag reflex kicked in. It wasn&#8217;t the woman carrying the Olympic flame (ignoring here how being part of an invasion force makes you a heroine), or the 7,999 other torch bearers, some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}