{"id":1120,"date":"2008-07-21T21:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2018-08-13T03:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T07:25:05","slug":"saturday-june-21-2008-olympic-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, June 21, 2008 \u2014 Olympic Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty in Bei\u00adjing is broad\u00adcast\u00ading care\u00adful\u00adly staged fan\u00adta\u00adsy images of \u201ccel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtions\u201d in Lhasa, as the Olympic Flame makes it\u2019s appear\u00adance in Tibet.&nbsp;In real\u00adi\u00adty, the city is locked down. All traf\u00adfic is stopped, Tibetans are not allowed to walk about&nbsp;with\u00adout spe\u00adcial per\u00admits, and a huge for\u00adeign army patrols the streets.&nbsp;Tanks, guns, beat\u00ading batons are every\u00adwhere.&nbsp;Near the Pota\u00adla, a hand\u00adful of hand-picked stooges are present to be pho\u00adtographed cheering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the real\u00adi\u00adty of the \u201cOlympic Spir\u00adit\u201d \u2014 at least the ver\u00adsion of it approved in the Age of Cor\u00adpo\u00adratism and Dic\u00adta\u00adtor\u00adship.&nbsp;If I hear even one oth\u00ader per\u00adson using that sick\u00aden\u00ading phrase, I will turn my back on them and walk away. There is no sense talk\u00ading to peo\u00adple who live in a world of lies, and aban\u00addon their fel\u00adlow human beings to slav\u00adery, then spew out pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda garbage claim\u00ading they rep\u00adre\u00adsent noble values.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty in Bei\u00adjing is broad\u00adcast\u00ading care\u00adful\u00adly staged fan\u00adta\u00adsy images of \u201ccel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtions\u201d in Lhasa, as the Olympic Flame makes it\u2019s appear\u00adance in Tibet.&nbsp;In real\u00adi\u00adty, the city is locked down. All traf\u00adfic is stopped, Tibetans are not allowed to&nbsp;walk&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1120\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-as-blog-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}