{"id":2047,"date":"2014-02-07T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2014-02-07T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T00:56:54","slug":"torch-dimmed-by-olympic-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/torch-dimmed-by-olympic-surroundings\/","title":{"rendered":"Torch Dimmed by Olympic Surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight marks the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the years Opening Ceremonies are a time for nations from around the world to come together as one before spending the next two and a half weeks as bitter rivals where only three people in each event come away with the metallic prize that they all seek.<\/p>\n<p>So while the next two weeks will be about hard fought competition and trying to secure one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight marks the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Throughout the years Opening Ceremonies are a time for nations from around the world to come together as one before spending the next two and a half weeks as bitter rivals where only three people in each event come away with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/torch-dimmed-by-olympic-surroundings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Torch Dimmed by Olympic Surroundings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[345,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}