{"id":1390278,"date":"2021-07-23T03:41:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1390278"},"modified":"2021-07-23T03:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:41:35","slug":"as-tokyo-games-open-can-olympic-flame-burn-away-the-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1390278","title":{"rendered":"As Tokyo Games open, can Olympic flame burn away the funk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/as-tokyo-games-open-can-olympic-flame-burn-away-the-funk\/19785627\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/olympics\/2021\/07\/23\/19785628\/60fa5f4168f30-media_13e6f910a6c74c0baebadc4eeb69ddb7-DMID1-5rmfjm946-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo_Olympics_The_Games_Begin_50604\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Disputed, locked down and running a year late, the Tokyo Games begin at last on Friday night, a multinational showcase of the finest athletes of a world fragmented by disease \u2014 and an event steeped in the political and medical baggage of a relentless pandemic whose presence haunts every Olympic corner. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/as-tokyo-games-open-can-olympic-flame-burn-away-the-funk\/19785627\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/as-tokyo-games-open-can-olympic-flame-burn-away-the-funk\/19785627\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"As Tokyo Games open, can Olympic flame burn away the funk?\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disputed, locked down and running a year late, the Tokyo Games begin at last on Friday night, a multinational showcase of the finest athletes of&#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-1390278","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\/1390278","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=1390278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}