{"id":35601,"date":"2016-08-30T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35601"},"modified":"2016-08-20T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T13:27:59","slug":"qotd-the-proper-reaction-to-an-olympic-bid-for-your-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/qotd-the-proper-reaction-to-an-olympic-bid-for-your-city\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The proper reaction to an Olympic bid for your city"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Local boosters frequently argue that the Olympics will produce a wave &mdash; a veritable tsunami &mdash; of economic benefits. The reality, as the <em>Economist<\/em> says, is that \u201cprudent city governments should avoid the contests at all costs.\u201d This does not really capture it. Prudent city governments should run screaming from any proposals to host the Olympics, and napalm the spot where the proposals were found, just to be safe.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-08-10\/the-olympics-don-t-have-to-be-a-disaster\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Olympics Don&#8217;t Have to Be a Disaster&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg News<\/em><\/a>, 2016-08-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local boosters frequently argue that the Olympics will produce a wave &mdash; a veritable tsunami &mdash; of economic benefits. The reality, as the Economist says, is that \u201cprudent city governments should avoid the contests at all costs.\u201d This does not really capture it. Prudent city governments should run screaming from any proposals to host the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[57,41,18],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-35601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-sports","tag-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9gd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35601","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=35601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35602,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35601\/revisions\/35602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}