{"id":3194,"date":"2010-02-17T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2010-02-18T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:04:32","slug":"10-reasons-why-the-olympic-flame-is-locked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=3194","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons Why the Olympic Flame is Locked Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/olympic_cauldron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3191\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/olympic_cauldron-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/olympic_cauldron-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/olympic_cauldron.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10. To stop the rain by aiming the flame to the sky at a certain angle (yes, \u00a0it worked,\u00a0 no more rain)<\/p>\n<p>9. To prorogue the Game for more favorable conditions by shutting down the cauldron<\/p>\n<p>8. To contain the Flame to a small area to reduce carbon pollution, in the spirit of the Copenhagen 2009<\/p>\n<p>7. To create an eye-sore, oh, I mean a tourist attraction<\/p>\n<p>6. To create more jobs, in setting up and altering the fences daily; stimulated by the <strong>Canada\u2019s Economic Action Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. This is how Vancouver fights crime, put everything under lock and key<\/p>\n<p>4. To boost the spirit of our athletes, VANOC promised the fence will be down once we have 10 Gold medals<\/p>\n<p>3. By placing the Olympic flame behind a fence became a symbol in itself<\/p>\n<p>2. To prevent terrorists attacks and avoid protests at all cost<\/p>\n<p>1. Without the Olympic Flame,\u00a0some Olympians are already too hot to handle (see picture below)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/olympian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3193\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/olympian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses) 10. To stop the rain by aiming the flame to the sky at a certain angle (yes, \u00a0it worked,\u00a0 no more rain) 9. To prorogue the Game for more favorable conditions by shutting down the cauldron 8. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=3194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,111],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-through-rose-coloured-glasses","tag-fb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}