{"id":178,"date":"2002-02-10T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-11T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2002-02-10T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-11T04:53:00","slug":"178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Olympics stopped meaning much of anything to me, I think, when they first split the winter and summer games into separate years. I know they did this to make travel and training easier for the athletes from poorer countries — it’s not cheap to send that many teams so far, so often — and I’m sure it was the right decision, but it’s hard to get excited about the Olympics now that they’re so common an event. I remember how the 1988 games in Seoul and Calgary seemed huge and important. Maybe that’s just because I was an impressionable eleven-year-old boy who had never seen the games before, but I can’t find any of that same excitement for the Winter Olympics underway right now in Salt Lake City. It’s just a vaguely interesting alternative to all the other<\/em> programs I don’t watch on NBC. Unless, of course, this<\/a> turns out to be true. Wil Wheaton<\/a>, on whose weblog I found this, and who would be in a position to know, so far hasn’t said. It sounds<\/em> like a joke, but I mean, come on. What is Jonathan Frakes known for if not<\/em> his ballast?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Olympics stopped meaning much of anything to me, I think, when they first split the winter and summer games into separate years. I know they did this to make travel and training easier for the athletes from poorer countries — it’s not cheap to send that many teams so far, so often — and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}