{"id":1412,"date":"2008-08-15T22:39:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T03:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2008-08-15T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T03:39:21","slug":"yes-i-am-a-walking-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/15\/yes-i-am-a-walking-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"yes, I am a walking cliche."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I know it&#8217;s cliche, and unoriginal, and that I&#8217;m just one of many, but man-oh-man, i could watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/16\/sports\/olympics\/16swim.html?partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Michael Phelps swim every day and just never get tired of it<\/a>.  I think that the last time I sat through this many hours of olympic coverage was the winter olympics in 1980.  And that was a combination of it being the only thing on the TV in my non-cable owning house, that whole USA-USSR hockey thing, and the fact that my parents and I actually spent the week prior to those games in Lake Placid because my dad was tasked with setting up some sort of on-site art show his company was sponsoring for the games.  Oh, and I was 6.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s cliche, and unoriginal, and that I&#8217;m just one of many, but man-oh-man, i could watch Michael Phelps swim every day and just never get tired of it. I think that the last time I sat through this many hours of olympic coverage was the winter olympics in 1980. And that was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[15,35],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-miscellaney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}