{"id":16250,"date":"2012-07-29T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16250"},"modified":"2012-07-29T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T14:39:51","slug":"a-brief-critical-analysis-of-olympic-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/a-brief-critical-analysis-of-olympic-merchandise\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief critical analysis of Olympic merchandise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sDvN-qok_pE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stephen Bayley &#8211; Founder of the Design Museum &#8211; gives the Olympics merchandise a critical mauling.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;Rule Britannia: The Vice Guide to The Olympics&#8217; VICE takes an in-depth look at the British public&#8217;s reaction to The Games coming to London this summer and the negative impact it&#8217;s having on certain people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p>The six week festival promises to bring a a celebration of unity and sporting achievement, not to mention a huge cash injection to our beleaguered capital. VICE questions the real effects of The Games on a city as complex and tempestuous as London and discovers that they go much deeper, and murkier than the Olympics&#8217; media spin-machine would have us believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=328200050604121&#038;id=851780018\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Packwood<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Bayley &#8211; Founder of the Design Museum &#8211; gives the Olympics merchandise a critical mauling. In &#8216;Rule Britannia: The Vice Guide to The Olympics&#8217; VICE takes an in-depth look at the British public&#8217;s reaction to The Games coming to London this summer and the negative impact it&#8217;s having on certain people&#8217;s lives. The six [&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":[4,57,18],"tags":[86,350,314],"class_list":["post-16250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-sports","tag-criticism","tag-london","tag-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4e6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250","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=16250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16251,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions\/16251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}