{"id":288,"date":"2002-02-07T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2002-02-08T00:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=288"},"modified":"2002-02-07T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2002-02-08T00:48:53","slug":"a-bridge-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/02\/07\/a-bridge-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"A bridge too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Contract Bridge <\/b>may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridge.gr\/IOC\/IOC.htm\">coming to the Olympics<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.cbc.ca\/bios\/barrie.html\">Andy Barrie<\/a> said it best on CBC this morning (paraphrased): &#8220;What&#8217;s next &#8211; Rock, Paper Scissors?&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>They interviewed a guy on the Canadian team that just won a huge tournament in Salt Lake City.  Olympic Bridge athletes (?!) must be split into separate teams for men and women and undergo random drug tests.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I really, really appreciate that these people are the best in the whole damned world at a pastime that is remarkably challenging and worthy of all sorts of respect.  But IOC, give your fucking heads a shake.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to train now for the 2012 summer games where I&#8217;ll partake in the booger-flicking competition.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosmosys.com\/blogs\/TimsBlog\/\">Tim<\/a> says he can&#8217;t wait to watch every minute of riveting Olympic Bridge coverage.  I&#8217;m considering making room in my cable tv portfolio for this event&#8217;s coverage by dropping the ever-popular Paint-Drying Channel &#8211; a tough decision but I&#8217;m willing to sacrifice.  If only I could afford the tickets to the event floor.  Bastard ticket scalpers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contract Bridge may be coming to the Olympics. Andy Barrie said it best on CBC this morning (paraphrased): &#8220;What&#8217;s next &#8211; Rock, Paper Scissors?&#8221;. They interviewed a guy on the Canadian team that just won a huge tournament in Salt Lake City. Olympic Bridge athletes (?!) must be split into separate teams for men and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}