{"id":1132,"date":"2008-08-16T23:31:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T03:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2008-08-16T23:31:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T03:31:27","slug":"believe-hon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/16\/believe-hon\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe, Hon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever I care about the Olympics, I care about Olympic swimming even less.  Add on top of that my reflexive dismissing of anyone who&#8217;s been hyped by the media, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that I&#8217;d never have written about Michael Phelps, here.  But it&#8217;s been on in the background tonight, and they just cut to the Baltimore Ravens (NFL team) stadium, where it looked like most of the people in attendance had <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jaG2dDsQItw4KlOeEVl83KS1lejwD92IS04G0\">stayed *after* a preseason game<\/a> to watch a native son aim for a record eighth gold.  And as <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/olympics\/2008\/08\/16\/bc.oly.swm.phelps.medley.relay.ap\/index.html?bcnn=yes\">he did it<\/a>, thousands and thousands of Baltimoreans cheered.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty fucking cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever I care about the Olympics, I care about Olympic swimming even less. Add on top of that my reflexive dismissing of anyone who&#8217;s been hyped by the media, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that I&#8217;d never have written about Michael Phelps, here. 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