{"id":514,"date":"2008-02-10T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2008-02-10T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T01:29:52","slug":"athletes-silenced-on-chinese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Athletes Silenced On Chinese Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British athletes have been asked to sign a contract stating they will not criticize the communist government if selected to go to the Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The move \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which raises the spectre of the order given to the England football team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c immediately provoked a storm of protest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more. My only question is: Why was China selected to host at all? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=513362&#038;in_page_id=1770&#038;ct=5\">Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British athletes have been asked to sign a contract stating they will not criticize the communist government if selected to go to the Olympics. The move \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which raises the spectre of the order given to the England football team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c immediately provoked a storm of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}