{"id":22380,"date":"2004-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/olympics\/"},"modified":"2004-08-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T06:00:00","slug":"olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been watching a little bit of the Athens Olympics. This was the first time I had ever seen synchronized diving, and I am very impressed. It&#8217;s so cool to watch the symmetry (or lack thereof) of the divers. The camera angles are so interesting too, especially the &#8220;chase&#8221; camera, which follows the divers all the way down and underwater. That is pretty cool. I also watched a little swimming, weightlifting, rifle, and cycling.<\/p>\n<p>For me, Olympic basketball is not interesting at all. I mean, we get to see basketball all the time. I guess I&#8217;d rather see some sports that they don&#8217;t show on tv that often. Speaking of things on tv, what the hell is up with the &#8220;World Series of Poker&#8221; that is on ESPN *all the time*. I mean, is it really a sport? And why is it on every night? I though a championship tournament would last for maybe a week at longest. It seems like it&#8217;s been going on for half a year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been watching a little bit of the Athens Olympics. This was the first time I had ever seen synchronized diving, and I am very impressed. It&#8217;s so cool to watch the symmetry (or lack thereof) of the divers. The camera angles are so interesting too, especially the &#8220;chase&#8221; camera, which follows the divers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olympics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Fk3x-olympics","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}