{"id":3435,"date":"2005-07-08T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T01:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/08\/olympic-scandal\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T01:11:16","slug":"olympic-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/olympic-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/0,,SB112084574015380879,00.html?mod=home%5Fwhats%5Fnews%5Fus\">This is atrocious:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8212; Baseball and softball were tossed out of the Olympics for the 2012 London Games on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The action by the International Olympic Committee marked the first time it had dropped any sports from the Summer Games in 69 years. The committee then rejected the five sports wanting to get in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ribbon and ball stay in, of course.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/mossback.org\/pitchers\/ribbon.jpg' alt='' \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is atrocious: SINGAPORE &#8212; Baseball and softball were tossed out of the Olympics for the 2012 London Games on Friday. The action by the International Olympic Committee marked the first time it had dropped any sports from the Summer Games in 69 years. The committee then rejected the five sports wanting to get in. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/olympic-scandal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Olympic Scandal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","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}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","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-Tp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","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=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}