{"id":194960,"date":"2008-08-06T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/well-it-appears-that-these-colors-do-run\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:56:00","slug":"well-it-appears-that-these-colors-do-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/well-it-appears-that-these-colors-do-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It Appears that these Colors Do Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be clear: the air in Beijing is a miasma of pathological chemistry, and members of the US Olympic Bicycle team were completely justified in <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/06\/sports\/masks.php\">wearing filter masks when they flew in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like as a result of some arm twisting from Steve Roush, the chief of sport performance for the U.S. Olympic Committee, they all signed a letter that he drafted apologizing for wearing a mask, though bicyclist Mike Friedman said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sorry for wearing the masks at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a health issue.  Athletes are delaying going to Beijing to minimize their exposure to the air.  The bicyclists are completely justified in their actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be clear: the air in Beijing is a miasma of pathological chemistry, and members of the US Olympic Bicycle team were completely justified in wearing filter masks when they flew in. It looks like as a result of some arm twisting from Steve Roush, the chief of sport performance for the U.S. Olympic Committee, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,964,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-foreign-relations","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194960"}],"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=194960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}