{"id":642,"date":"2008-02-10T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/10\/boa-wtf\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T16:39:16","slug":"boa-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/10\/boa-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"BOA: WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Olympic Association (BOA) has decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=513362&amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;ct=5\">it needs to protect China&#8217;s feelings from British Olympic athletes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China&#8217;s appalling human rights record \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, no, neither the US, France, Australia, South Africa, or most any other civilized country imposes such requirements on its athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Olympic Association (BOA) has decided that it needs to protect China&#8217;s feelings from British Olympic athletes: British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China&#8217;s appalling human rights record \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or face being banned from travelling to Beijing. In case you&#8217;re wondering, no, neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}