{"id":2028,"date":"2008-06-20T12:46:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2008-06-20T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:46:48","slug":"china-presses-injured-athletes-in-quest-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"China Presses Injured Athletes in Quest for Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/20\/world\/asia\/20olympics.html\">Ouuch<\/a>. I often fret about the fairness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1987\">competition<\/a>\u00a0between the government funded and free willing. In a way, I reckon\u00a0in the end things are pretty equal?\u00a0 How&#8217;s to say those athletes are &#8216;forced&#8217;?\u00a0 They could forgo the temptation of fame\/money, be what they were before.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not justifying the treatment or pressure of the government, Central or provincial, but China is free enough for its citizens to do pretty much they wish &#8211; the fact he made such claim that he&#8217;d like to quit through the team interpreter showed there is a large degree freedom.\u00a0\u00a0Take it like a man.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouuch. I often fret about the fairness of competition\u00a0between the government funded and free willing. In a way, I reckon\u00a0in the end things are pretty equal?\u00a0 How&#8217;s to say those athletes are &#8216;forced&#8217;?\u00a0 They could forgo the temptation of fame\/money, be what they were before.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not justifying the treatment or pressure of the government, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","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=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}