{"id":328353,"date":"2010-02-16T19:49:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T00:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2010-02-16T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T00:49:25","slug":"2010-vancouver-olympic-cauldronprison-%e2%80%93-a-sad-sight-of-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/328353","title":{"rendered":"2010 Vancouver Olympic Cauldron\/Prison \u2013 a sad sight of our times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stv\/4357242660\/in\/photostream\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stv\/4357242660\/in\/photostream\/\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4357242660_92a8b5afea.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Cauldron by Stv..\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">(photos via <a title=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stv\/4357242660\/in\/photostream\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stv\/4357242660\/in\/photostream\/\" >stv @ Flickr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Pictures worth thousand words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Winter_Olympics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Winter_Olympics\" >2010 Vancouver Olympic<\/a> Cauldron\/<a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/02\/16\/olympic-cauldron-fencing.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/02\/16\/olympic-cauldron-fencing.html\" >Prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Whether this is for security reasons or to keep protestors away,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/02\/16\/olympic-cauldron-fencing.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/02\/16\/olympic-cauldron-fencing.html\" >the fences is a sad sight<\/a> of our times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Update<\/strong>: There is talk of a VANOC news conference tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stv\/4356491547\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stv\/4356491547\/\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2687\/4356491547_1b9ebcf96f.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Cauldron by Stv..\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/2010-olympics\/'>2010-Olympics<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/law\/'>Law<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/politics\/'>politics<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/security\/'>security<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/vancouver\/'>Vancouver<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9857\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=9857&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photos via stv @ Flickr) Pictures worth thousand words. 2010 Vancouver Olympic Cauldron\/Prison. Whether this is for security reasons or to keep protestors away, the fences is a sad sight of our times. Update: There is talk of a VANOC news conference tomorrow. Filed under: 2010-Olympics, Law, politics, security, Vancouver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}