{"id":1387845,"date":"2021-07-21T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1387845"},"modified":"2021-07-21T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T08:38:12","slug":"olympics-pandemic-and-politics-theres-no-separating-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1387845","title":{"rendered":"Olympics, pandemic and politics: There&#8217;s no separating them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/olympics-pandemic-and-politics-theres-no-separating-them\/19781940\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/olympics\/2021\/07\/21\/19781941\/60f7dd4251585-media_a24eb59a56e042f9887b527531f03bd9-DMID1-5rlod3yci-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo_Olympics_The_Politics_91877\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Over and over, year after year, the stewards of the Olympics say it: The Games aren&#8217;t supposed to be political. But how do you avoid politics when you&#8217;re trying to pull off an event of this complexity during a lethal and protracted pandemic? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/olympics-pandemic-and-politics-theres-no-separating-them\/19781940\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/olympics-pandemic-and-politics-theres-no-separating-them\/19781940\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Olympics, pandemic and politics: There's no separating them\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over and over, year after year, the stewards of the Olympics say it: The Games aren&#8217;t supposed to be political. But how do you avoid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}