{"id":183493,"date":"2013-02-12T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/12\/facepalm-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:06:00","slug":"facepalm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/12\/facepalm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Facepalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ovkjk.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"325\" \/>In its infinite wisdom, the International Olympic Committee has <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/8939185\/ioc-drops-wrestling-2020-olympics\">dropped wrestling from its sports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The vote Tuesday by the IOC&#8217;s executive board stunned the world&#8217;s wrestlers, who see their sport as popular in many countries and steeped in history as old as the Olympics themselves.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">While wrestling will be included at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, it was cut from the games in 2020, which have yet to be awarded to a host city.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wrestling has been a part of the Olympics since the Greeks held the original ones starting in 776 BCE.<\/p>\n<p>So, they will keep Dressage (horse dancing) and beach volleyball but they will dump wrestling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its infinite wisdom, the International Olympic Committee has dropped wrestling from its sports: For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings.The vote Tuesday by the IOC&#8217;s executive board stunned the world&#8217;s wrestlers, who see their sport as popular in many countries and steeped in history &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}