{"id":361,"date":"2002-02-15T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2002-02-15T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2002-02-15T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2002-02-15T22:15:21","slug":"random-thoughts-olympics-update-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts Olympics Update: Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Random Thoughts Olympics Update:<\/b><br \/>\nGood sense and public outrage prevail!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/705743.asp\">IOC awards gold to Canadian pair<\/a><br \/>\nThe Russian coaches, interviewed after the press conference, were quoted as saying, &#8220;Yeah, well&#8230;we got our medals first!  And they&#8217;re shiner!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m personally just glad to see that logic won out in all this.  (Although I imagine a healthy dose of international outrage didn&#8217;t hurt either.)  I saw the competition, and I saw the same replays that the judges had access to.  Jamie and David just flat out skated a cleaner performance.  I&#8217;m no figure skating judge (if I were, I wouldn&#8217;t want to be one right now), but I recognize a mistake when I see it and the Russians made a big one, which should have been an .5 deduction.  Those are the facts.  So congratulations to Jamie and David, eh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random Thoughts Olympics Update: Good sense and public outrage prevail! IOC awards gold to Canadian pair The Russian coaches, interviewed after the press conference, were quoted as saying, &#8220;Yeah, well&#8230;we got our medals first! And they&#8217;re shiner!&#8221; I&#8217;m personally just glad to see that logic won out in all this. (Although I imagine a healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-5P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}