{"id":1811,"date":"2008-04-10T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2008-04-10T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:45:26","slug":"ioc-chief-torch-protests-a-crisis-for-the-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"The torch relay will go on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/04\/10\/torch.relay\/index.html\">China goes on<\/a>.\u00a0 WTG &#8230; Don&#8217;t forget that two opium wars didn&#8217;t crack open its door.\u00a0 Mounting pressure to flex its currency didn&#8217;t work either.\u00a0 I doubt China would give in to Tibet.\u00a0 Take my word, UK would have a hell to pay for not attending its opening ceremony, especially their London game comes in just 4 years,\u00a0 and most importantly\u00a0UK has far less cloud than the US.\u00a0 What the 10 Downing Street is\u00a0thinking?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Go China Go &#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So China goes on.\u00a0 WTG &#8230; Don&#8217;t forget that two opium wars didn&#8217;t crack open its door.\u00a0 Mounting pressure to flex its currency didn&#8217;t work either.\u00a0 I doubt China would give in to Tibet.\u00a0 Take my word, UK would have a hell to pay for not attending its opening ceremony, especially their London game comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}