{"id":917500,"date":"2020-03-04T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T18:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=917500"},"modified":"2020-03-04T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T18:17:49","slug":"guest-column-speculation-about-cancellation-of-the-tokyo-olympics-is-extremely-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=917500","title":{"rendered":"Guest Column: Speculation about cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics is extremely premature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/guest-column-speculation-about-cancellation-of-the-tokyo-olympics-is-extremely-premature\/18992645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/olympics\/2020\/03\/04\/18992641\/75029-olympics_delay_possible-DMID1-5m1sfodk0-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Olympics delay possible due to coronavirus\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already seen this movie. Twice. I&#8217;ve taken large groups of students to two Olympics: Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016. Both times, health scares led to dire predictions about officials needing to move, postpone or cancel the Games. Both times, we made our trip and suffered no illness or discomfort related to the pandemic du jour. Friends and family are insisting that this time, it&#8217;s different. I&#8217;m not buying it, though, because the numbers, so far, don&#8217;t bear out the panic I&#8217;m seeing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/guest-column-speculation-about-cancellation-of-the-tokyo-olympics-is-extremely-premature\/18992645\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/guest-column-speculation-about-cancellation-of-the-tokyo-olympics-is-extremely-premature\/18992645\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Guest Column: Speculation about cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics is extremely premature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already seen this movie. Twice. I&#8217;ve taken large groups of students to two Olympics: Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016. Both times, health scares led to&#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-917500","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\/917500","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=917500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}