{"id":1607,"date":"2010-02-15T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/15\/will-this-be-remembered-as-the-rain-olympics\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:03:00","slug":"will-this-be-remembered-as-the-rain-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/15\/will-this-be-remembered-as-the-rain-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Will this be remembered as the Rain Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three North Country athletes &#8212; Tim Burke, Lowell Bailey and Bill Demong &#8212; have seen their fortunes in Vancouver seriously affected by weather.<\/p>\n<p>Radically different conditions on the biathlon course probably made it impossible for Bailey and Burke to medal over the weekend.  <\/p>\n<p>They battled slush and rain and snow in the ski-and-shooting competition.<\/p>\n<p>Demong also faced deteriorating conditions on the ski jump, which means he was forced to start far behind in the Nordic combined x-country race.<\/p>\n<p>Top-tier athletes loathe making excuses when they don&#8217;t win.  <\/p>\n<p>But as sour weather continues to sweep the Pacific Northwest, these games could be defined as much by the thermometer as the passion and skill of the competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three North Country athletes &#8212; Tim Burke, Lowell Bailey and Bill Demong &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}