{"id":240,"date":"2002-02-26T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2002-02-26T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/meanwhile-back-in-the-valley\/"},"modified":"2002-02-26T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2002-02-26T19:05:01","slug":"meanwhile-back-in-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/26\/meanwhile-back-in-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, back in the Valley,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tthe big news is the prospect of bringing the Summer Olympics to the Frisco Bay area in 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/2746024.htm\">Bay Area bid for Games gets boost<\/a>) &#8220;SALT LAKE CITY &#8211; The beauty and the success of the 2002 Winter Olympics could propel San Francisco&#8217;s campaign to bring the Summer Games to the Bay Area in 10 years.&#8221;<P>I would hope that the Bay Area Games would include some new demonstation sports that highlight local culture, such as, well, <i>Demonstrating for Lost Causes<\/i>, where the medal would go to the group with the cause most reflective of unreconstructed 60s values. Or <i>Ordering Chinese and Then Eating it with Chopsticks<\/i>, even if the main course is rice (something an East Asian wouldn&#8217;t do, actually). Or <i>Driving Too Slow on the Freeways<\/i>, something we do better than anybody in the world. <i>Looking down our Noses at Iowa<\/i> would be fiercely competitive, and engaging to the Europeans. But nothing would better highlight the essence of the Valley than the <i>Mad Dash for Cash with a Startup<\/i>, unless it&#8217;s <i>Moral Sanctimony without any Discernable Morals<\/i>, or the <i>Green Card Race<\/i>.<P>Silicon Valley and the Frisco Bay Area generally have so much to share with the world.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the big news is the prospect of bringing the Summer Olympics to the Frisco Bay area in 2012 (Bay Area bid for Games gets boost) &#8220;SALT LAKE CITY &#8211; The beauty and the success of the 2002 Winter Olympics could propel San Francisco&#8217;s campaign to bring the Summer Games to the Bay Area in 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/26\/meanwhile-back-in-the-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meanwhile, back in the Valley,&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-3S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}