{"id":88,"date":"2007-07-05T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T20:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayfly.net\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-07-06T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T14:39:01","slug":"sochi-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Sochi made it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/front_page\/6271122.stm\">Sochi made it<\/a>.  Good for them. Some of the people who helped us, helped them. Winning formula, no doubt very bankable \ud83d\ude09 I have met with several people from Sochi and I have no doubt they will do a great job. VANOC folks seem intrigued with the idea of working with the Sochi folks. But the Sochi OCOG (another SOCOG perhaps) has a lot to do and will need to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesbids.com\/cgi-bin\/news\/viewnews.cgi?category=1&#038;id=1183658495\">very careful<\/a>. I also rather liked <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesbids.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/congratulations-sochi-bring-on-2016.html\">this post<\/a> though I must say the idea that there ought to be logic in the IOC voting process is pure romance at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Sochi made it. Good for them. Some of the people who helped us, helped them. Winning formula, no doubt very bankable \ud83d\ude09 I have met with several people from Sochi and I have no doubt they will do a great job. VANOC folks seem intrigued with the idea of working with the Sochi folks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-not-sport","category-london-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}