{"id":148,"date":"2003-08-13T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/08\/the_2004_olympics_mess\/"},"modified":"2003-08-13T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2003-08-13T13:02:50","slug":"the_2004_olympics_mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/the_2004_olympics_mess\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2004 Olympics Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article about the issues Greece is having in preparing for the 2004 Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article about the issues Greece is having in preparing for the 2004 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":329,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/19\/marcus_dixon_on_real_sports_with_bryant_gumbel\/","url_meta":{"origin":148,"position":0},"title":"Marcus Dixon on ‘Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel’","date":"May 19, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Those of you who have been following the Marcus Dixon story be sure to see the current episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. 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