{"id":3447,"date":"2015-03-11T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2015-03-10T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T02:34:56","slug":"your-voice-boston-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/11\/your-voice-boston-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Voice: Boston Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/OlympicBoxingOriginal-1024x683.png\" alt=\"A boxing scene from an attic red-figure kylix (c. 500 BCE). Olympia Archaeological Museum.\" width=\"400\" height=\"444\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3451\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>We have had some interesting discussions on IRC about Boston&#8217;s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of us point to the lack of transparency of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2015\/03\/09\/olympic-bid-organizers-pledge-release-salaries\/bbowaXcuzG6ldvVXbKay3N\/story.html\">private bid<\/a>, the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/02\/140221-olympics-sochi-rio-de-janeiro-london-boris-johnson-montreal-athens-world\/\">most recent Olympics have been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/172180\/the-sochi-olympics-are-going-to-cost-more-than-the-last-13-olympics-combined\/\">wildly over budget<\/a> usually at government expense and the resulting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jan\/08\/boston-us-candidate-host-2024-olympics-rights-violated\">increase in police power and loss of freedom of speech<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others think there may be a silver lining to it if it yields needed infrastructure spending (hello MBTA) and it shouldn&#8217;t be dismissed out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/user\/markzcartwright\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Cartwright<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/image\/446\/\">published on 26 April 2012<\/a> under the following license: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had some interesting discussions on IRC about Boston&#8217;s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. \u00a0 Some of us point to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3449,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,18,21,32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-freedom-of-speech","category-fun-and-games","category-slider","category-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/OlympicBoxingLandscape.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-TB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}