{"id":853,"date":"2012-04-19T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2012-04-19T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:03:13","slug":"olympics-2012-branding-police-to-protect-sponsors-exclusive-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Olympics 2012: branding &#8216;police&#8217; to protect sponsors&#8217; exclusive rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Locog insists the protections were essential to secure the contracts that have paid for the Olympics, but some fear the effect could be to limit the economic benefits to the capital&#8217;s economy \u2013 and set a precedent for major national celebrations in future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2012\/apr\/13\/olympics-2012-branding-police-sponsors?newsfeed=true\">Olympics 2012: branding &#8216;police&#8217; to protect sponsors&#8217; exclusive rights | Sport | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God Chicago lost its Olympics bid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locog insists the protections were essential to secure the contracts that have paid for the Olympics, but some fear the effect could be to limit the economic benefits to the capital&#8217;s economy \u2013 and set a precedent for major national &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=853\">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":[35],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","tag-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}