{"id":925,"date":"2008-08-11T12:26:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=925"},"modified":"2008-08-11T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T18:26:28","slug":"olympic-chauvinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Chauvinism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just for the <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/nationalism_and_olympic_tv.php\">US<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every four years some people moan and hand-wring about American TV&#8217;s excessive focus on American athletes and the Olympic events where Americans are likely to win medals.<\/p>\n<p>These people need to get out more.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least they need to spend a little time watching CCTV in China. Today&#8217;s early morning and evening Olympic coverage &#8212; was gone in the interim, at a real Olympic venue about which more later &#8212; focused heavily on events like Women&#8217;s Air Pistol (Gold medal: China), Men&#8217;s Air Pistol (Gold medal: China), Women&#8217;s 48kg Weightlifting (Gold medal: China), Men&#8217;s 56kg Weightlifting (Gold medal: China), and&#8230; you get the idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just for the US: Every four years some people moan and hand-wring about American TV&#8217;s excessive focus on American athletes and the Olympic events where Americans are likely to win medals. These people need to get out more. Or at least they need to spend a little time watching CCTV in China. Today&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olympic Chauvinism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-eV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}