{"id":5415,"date":"2012-08-08T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T05:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2012-08-08T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T05:48:34","slug":"is-this-where-i-talk-about-being-bored-with-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5415","title":{"rendered":"Is this where I talk about being bored with the Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched hours of the Olympics, and I think I&#8217;m ready to watch pre-season NFL football instead. That&#8217;s like saying I want an itchy rash on my ass or something but honestly, I have a hard time watching all those ads only to have events I&#8217;m interested in interspersed with things I couldn&#8217;t give a sh*t about. I&#8217;m stupid enough to see the news during the day so I already know who is going to win beach volleyball. I have absolutely no interest in rooting for the underdog who I know is going to lose.\u00a0Unfortunately, the Olympics preempt a lot of the crummy TV shows I like to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Enough complaining. Maybe I should read a book or do something constructive. What to do, what to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched hours of the Olympics, and I think I&#8217;m ready to watch pre-season NFL football instead. That&#8217;s like saying I want an itchy rash on my ass or something but honestly, I have a hard time watching all those ads only to have events I&#8217;m interested in interspersed with things I couldn&#8217;t give a sh*t about. I&#8217;m stupid enough to see the news during the day so I already know who is going to win beach volleyball. I have absolutely no interest in rooting for the underdog who I know is going to lose.\u00a0Unfortunately, the Olympics preempt a lot of the crummy TV shows I like to watch. Enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this where I talk about being bored with the Olympics?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}