{"id":1276,"date":"2008-08-10T10:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/10\/olympic-stuff\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T14:41:47","slug":"olympic-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/10\/olympic-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not really been too inspired to watch must of this year\u2019s Olympics.\u00a0 I have seen a few random sports here and there \u2013 men\u2019s swimming, a few minutes of men\u2019s gymnastics, women\u2019s field hockey, and woman\u2019s handball.\u00a0 I had no idea the last two were even sports.\u00a0 Lacrosse is one thing, but field hockey?\u00a0 I guess these are just not Southern traditions.<\/p>\n<p>I also have seen some soccer here and there, including today\u2019s US National men\u2019s near miss (dare I say debacle) against the Netherlands.\u00a0 Down 1-0, the US had two nice goals to pull ahead 2-1, but gave up a stupid penalty in extra time resulting in a disappointing 2-2 finish.\u00a0 Oh well, so close, but so far away.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have the first big test for the US men\u2019s basketball team (vs. China).\u00a0 First quarter has been very entertaining; I think much more so than a typical NBA game.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what else will catch my fancy, but NBC is throwing up enough coverage on multiple channels at all hours of the day to find something interesting.\u00a0 The 12 hour time difference sucks, but NBC seems to be doing a decent job juggling the schedule to bring some quality events live in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not really been too inspired to watch must of this year\u2019s Olympics.\u00a0 I have seen a few random sports here and there \u2013 men\u2019s swimming, a few minutes of men\u2019s gymnastics, women\u2019s field hockey, and woman\u2019s handball.\u00a0 I had no idea the last two were even sports.\u00a0 Lacrosse is one thing, but field &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/10\/olympic-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olympic Stuff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}