{"id":2018,"date":"2014-10-05T13:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2014-10-05T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T18:45:31","slug":"why-no-one-wants-to-host-the-2022-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"Why no one wants to host the 2022 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The effect is the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, which is now down to just two cities. The final vote comes next summer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412370563488_1761\">There&#8217;s Beijing, China, which doesn&#8217;t actually sit within 120 miles of a usable ski mountain, and there&#8217;s Almaty, Kazakhstan, which in its bid touted itself as &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest landlocked nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/why-no-one-wants-to-host-the-2022-olympics-225450509.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory\">Why no one wants to host the 2022 Olympics &#8211; Yahoo Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412370563488_1817\">Essentially the only places interested in hosting the 2022 games are countries where actual citizens aren&#8217;t allowed a real say in things \u2013 communist China and Kazakhstan, a presidential republic that coincidentally has only had one president since it split from the old USSR in 1989.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412370563488_1815\">Essentially the entire world has told the IOC it&#8217;s a corrupt joke.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effect is the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, which is now down to just two cities. The final vote comes next summer. There&#8217;s Beijing, China, which doesn&#8217;t actually sit within 120 miles of a usable ski mountain, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}