{"id":2516,"date":"2004-08-15T23:48:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T03:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/08\/15\/what-if-the-held-a-games-and-nobody-ca"},"modified":"2004-08-15T23:48:43","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T03:48:43","slug":"what-if-the-held-a-games-and-nobody-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/15\/what-if-the-held-a-games-and-nobody-came\/","title":{"rendered":"What if the Held a Games, And Nobody Came?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3667'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/mtstad.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"325\" align=\"left\"><em>Sure<br \/>\n        has seemed like we have seen a load of empty seats at almost all of the<br \/>\n        venues featured so far on the Olympic coverage being quarterbacked, in<br \/>\n        this country, by NBC. Its like they spent so much money and energy to<br \/>\n        get the damn thing off on time that now everybody in the contry is exhausted<br \/>\n        and broke. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Plus, after having spent 8 BILLION dollars, the organizers<br \/>\n        have priced the individual event tickets so high none of the so-called<br \/>\n        &quot;normal&quot; people can afford them. Still, it looks bad.&nbsp;Solution?<br \/>\n        Let EVERYBODY in&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n        ATHENS (AFP) &#8211; IOC (news &#8211; web sites) officials, worried by the television<br \/>\n          images being flashed around the world of athletes competing in near<br \/>\n          empty stadiums, have told the Athens Games organisers to give tickets<br \/>\n      away for free if necessary. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=1503&amp;u=\/afp\/20040815\/ts_afp\/oly_2004_gre_greece_040815143723&amp;printer=1\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure has seemed like we have seen a load of empty seats at almost all of the venues featured so far on the Olympic coverage being quarterbacked, in this country, by NBC. Its like they spent so much money and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/15\/what-if-the-held-a-games-and-nobody-came\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}