{"id":311,"date":"2008-02-12T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-11-30T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T19:25:20","slug":"things-you-never-hear-about-on-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Things You Never Hear About on the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just shameful: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=513362&amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;ct=5\" target=\"_blank\">British athletes are being forced to agree not to critize China during the Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, why not?\u00a0 There&#8217;s ample precedent:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088\" title=\"olympic_salute\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/olympic_salute.jpg\" alt=\"British athletes give Nazi salute during 1938 Olympics\" width=\"379\" height=\"192\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British athletes give Nazi salute during 1938 Olympics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Will our own athletes will be required to sign a similar contract?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why\u00a0the American media doesn&#8217;t cover stories like this.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credit where credit&#8217;s due:<\/em> spotted at <a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/02\/10\/7852\" target=\"_blank\">Unqualified Offerings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just shameful: British athletes are being forced to agree not to critize China during the Olympics. Well, why not?\u00a0 There&#8217;s ample precedent: Will our own athletes will be required to sign a similar contract? I wonder why\u00a0the American media doesn&#8217;t cover stories like this. Credit where credit&#8217;s due: spotted at Unqualified Offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}