{"id":614,"date":"2005-07-06T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/112065795295188559\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T14:54:44","slug":"olympics-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/olympics-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics again"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Enough of the Olympics nonsense. How about reading Jarndyce on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesharpener.net\/?p=99\">something that actually MATTERS<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Although I feel I should point out that the initial estimated budget of the 2012 London Olympics (\u00c2\u00a32.375 billion), likely to rise, could &#8211; based on Jarndyce&#8217;s sums &#8211; pay for 999,579 better childhoods. Nearly a million children given a better chance, or a bunch of adults mindlessly competing in games that most of us gave up when we were twelve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough of the Olympics nonsense. How about reading Jarndyce on something that actually MATTERS? Although I feel I should point out that the initial estimated budget of the 2012 London Olympics (\u00c2\u00a32.375 billion), likely to rise, could &#8211; based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/olympics-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}