{"id":207,"date":"2002-02-15T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-15T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com.php53-14.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2002-02-15T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-15T19:25:00","slug":"207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far I have not been particularly swept up in Winter Olympic fever.  I watched a medal ceremony for free-style snowboarding in which (gasp) all three medalists were Americans!  They looked like three kids off the X-games, cleaned up a little.  All three also looked totally stoned, which gave me and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tornadomagnet.com\/\" title=\"not a snowboarder\">Kevin<\/a> a good laugh.  &#8220;Dude, if we peel off the gold foil is there chocalate under here? I am STARVING!  Whoa, check out the big flame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, luger&#8217;s are idiots.  Somebody&#8217;s gonna get killed.  I mean, the Bobsleder&#8217;s have like, a big contraption around them to protect them.  It&#8217;s only made of fiberglass, but it&#8217;s better than hurtling down a mountain at 80 miles an hour FLAT ON YOUR ASS!<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, here are my favorite Olympic moments so far.  The US hockey team beat Switzerland (like we didn&#8217;t all see that coming).  Anytime they win I am happy.<br \/>\n<br \/>Bob Costas encouraged the bartender at one Olympians parents bar in Vermont to by the house a round after the daughter of the proprieters won a gold medal, only to find out that it is against the law to give away drinks in Vermont, and Bob ended up costing the poor bartender around $170 bucks.  The next day, Bob sent the guy his credit card info, enough money for a second round of drinks, and a $200 tip.<\/p>\n<p>I also watched figure skating, which I don&#8217;t normally do, and happened to see the two Canadians.  The entire performance.  I saw the Russians, who won the gold, right before them, and there is no denying that they were good.  The Canadians, who I only paid complete attention to because I was glad to see they managed to look more like a Gap ad than Sigfried and Roy, were incredible!  I was as shocked as anybody that they didn&#8217;t win, and I am ususally rooting for someone to get cross checked during figure skating.  That&#8217;s why I was so glad to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/US\/02\/15\/oly.skate.row\/index.html\">this<\/a>, because they earned it.  It&#8217;s nice to see that in an international community that has been falling apart with terror and war,  we can come together and recognize that, oops, we screwed up, but let&#8217;s just say we were all winners and try not kill each other, ok?   Good job guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far I have not been particularly swept up in Winter Olympic fever. I watched a medal ceremony for free-style snowboarding in which (gasp) all three medalists were Americans! They looked like three kids off the X-games, cleaned up a little. All three also looked totally stoned, which gave me and Kevin a good laugh. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/?p=207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}