{"id":4703,"date":"2013-08-16T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T03:50:00","slug":"sochi-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/sochi-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"sochi olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t, for a long while, given much of a rat&#8217;s ass about the Olympic Games. But <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/2013\/08\/13\/international-olympic-committee-forbids-athletes-speak-against-russian-antigay\">now that the IOC has ordered GBLT athletes to stay silent<\/a> about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/gay-peoples-hearts-unsuitable-for-life-says-head-of-russias-state-controlled-tv-news\/politics\/2013\/08\/10\/72922\">Russia&#8217;s anti-gay pogrom<\/a> that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.ria.ru\/russia\/20130812\/182723811\/Russia-Confirms-Anti-Gay-Law-Will-Be-Enforced-at-Olympics.html\">extends <em>even to them<\/em><\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/head-of-us-olympics-our-strong-desire-is-that-our-athletes-comply-with-russias-laws\/politics\/2013\/08\/15\/73286\">the Americans are telling their team to <em>comply(!)<\/em> with the Russian anti-LBGT laws<\/a>, I now <em>do<\/em> care.<\/p>\n<p>I am now <em>actively against the entire project<\/em>. Don&#8217;t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150316143237\/http:\/\/www.allegiancemusical.com\/blog-entry\/its-time-move-olympics\">move the Olympics<\/a>; <em>cancel<\/eM> them.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t happen, of course. The very idea is ludicrous. Despite its redeeming elements, it&#8217;s always been deeply corrupt and frankly kind of horrible as soon as you scratch the surface. And god damn, if this is how they&#8217;re gonna roll? To hell with the whole project. Burn it down and start over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t, for a long while, given much of a rat&#8217;s ass about the Olympic Games. But now that the IOC has ordered GBLT athletes to stay silent about Russia&#8217;s anti-gay pogrom that extends even to them, and the Americans are telling their team to comply(!) with the Russian anti-LBGT laws, I now do care. [&#038;hellip<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8821,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/8821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}