{"id":7680,"date":"2009-05-22T09:54:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2009-05-22T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T06:56:10","slug":"friday-relax-the-2010-olympic-torch-vancouvers-holding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/friday-relax-the-2010-olympic-torch-vancouvers-holding\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Relax: The 2010 Olympic Torch. Vancouver’s Holding."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n“We’re not worried about it at all,” Dave Cobb, the executive vice-president of the Vancouver Organising Committee said in response to a newspaper article that dubbed the torch “The Olympic Toke<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The torch’s design is intended to “represent Canada through the contours of winter landscapes and lines of winter sports,” according VANOC’s website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having missed out on the first unveiling<\/a> of Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic torch, @sevendaggers<\/a> felt we should be informed of the hooha.<\/p>\n

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On Flickr, we found Canadian designer Ben Hulse<\/a> sharing a set of various people<\/a>, including himself, handling the product of their labors.<\/p>\n

\nVANOC says it has had more requests from Canadian communities wanting to participate in the torch relay than the schedule can handle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Canadians don’t want to miss out on a “good thing.” We always knew our neighbors to the north were a laid back kind of people. <\/p>\n

(via @sevendaggers<\/a>, news.com.au<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We’re not worried about it at all,” Dave Cobb, the executive vice-president of the Vancouver Organising Committee said in response to a newspaper article that dubbed the torch “The Olympic Toke“. […] The torch’s design is intended to “represent Canada through the contours of winter landscapes and lines of winter sports,” according VANOC’s website. Having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,63,20],"tags":[1237,1241,1238,1239,1240,1236],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-flickrlicious","category-sport","tag-2010-winter-olympics","tag-blame-canada","tag-carrying-a-torch","tag-double-meanings","tag-oh-canada","tag-up-in-this-joint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}