{"id":1256,"date":"2009-10-03T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2009-10-03T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:55:56","slug":"why-chicago-didnt-get-the-2016-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/03\/why-chicago-didnt-get-the-2016-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chicago didn&#8217;t get the 2016 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaliberty.org\/posts\/top-10-reasons-chicago-does-not-get-to-host-the-2016-summer-olympics-games\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Bentley<\/a> gives the top ten reasons why Chicago&#8217;s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games was rejected:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>10. Dead people can&#8217;t vote at IOC meetings.<\/p>\n<p>9. Obama distracted by 25 min meeting with Gen. McChrystal.<\/p>\n<p>8. Who cares if Obama couldn&#8217;t talk the IOC into Chicago? He&#8217;ll be able to talk Iran out of nukes.<\/p>\n<p>7. The impediment is Israel still building settlements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Bentley gives the top ten reasons why Chicago&#8217;s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games was rejected: 10. Dead people can&#8217;t vote at IOC meetings. 9. Obama distracted by 25 min meeting with Gen. McChrystal. 8. Who cares if Obama couldn&#8217;t talk the IOC into Chicago? He&#8217;ll be able to talk Iran out of nukes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,18,13],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-sports","category-usa","tag-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-kg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}