{"id":204,"date":"2004-08-14T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/08\/14\/olive_leaf_my_a\/"},"modified":"2004-08-14T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T18:31:34","slug":"olive_leaf_my_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/08\/14\/olive_leaf_my_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive leaf, my a**"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to things like the Olympics, I am a total sucker. I absolutely buy the whole shebang. The athletes are heroes. The organizers altruistic. The world is a happy, fit, peaceful place to live. Sigh.<br \/>\nI watched every minute of the opening ceremonies, and felt a vicarious thrill for each and every one of the 202 competing nations, whether they had one athlete or hundreds. I am aware that in the grand scheme of things, whether or not some one can dive without a splash or toss a javelin way far is, frankly, irrelevant. But still. There&#8217;s something about the Olympics that makes me care that we have athletes like Alexandre Despatie, Emilie Heymans, Ian Millar, and Maryse Turcotte.<br \/>\nHaving said that, the cynic in me insists on pointing out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2004-08\/14\/xinsrc_5308011407469041241133.jpg\">Olympic flame <\/a>is, I&#8217;m sorry, a giant flaming penis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to things like the Olympics, I am a total sucker. I absolutely buy the whole shebang. The athletes are heroes. The organizers altruistic. The world is a happy, fit, peaceful place to live. Sigh. I watched every minute of the opening ceremonies, and felt a vicarious thrill for each and every one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/08\/14\/olive_leaf_my_a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Olive leaf, my a**&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}