{"id":197247,"date":"2008-02-20T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/20\/dutch-lawmaker-calls-for-boycott-of-olympics-opening-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:41:00","slug":"dutch-lawmaker-calls-for-boycott-of-olympics-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/20\/dutch-lawmaker-calls-for-boycott-of-olympics-opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Lawmaker Calls for Boycott of Olympics Opening Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I&#8217;m dubious of this, but given the prestige that the government of the PRC has invested in the Beijing Olympics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/europe\/02\/19\/olympics.boycott.ap\/index.html\">I support a boycott of the opening ceremonies<\/a> over China&#8217;s abysmal human rights record and support of the genocidal Sudanese government.<\/p>\n<p>The sports fans don&#8217;t care, the athletes are there to play, not march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I&#8217;m dubious of this, but given the prestige that the government of the PRC has invested in the Beijing Olympics, I support a boycott of the opening ceremonies over China&#8217;s abysmal human rights record and support of the genocidal Sudanese government. The sports fans don&#8217;t care, the athletes are there to play, not march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,978,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197247"}],"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=197247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}