{"id":1629,"date":"2010-02-19T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/19\/who-has-the-best-olympic-medal-count-per-capita-vancouver-trivia-break\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T04:50:00","slug":"who-has-the-best-olympic-medal-count-per-capita-vancouver-trivia-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/19\/who-has-the-best-olympic-medal-count-per-capita-vancouver-trivia-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Who has the best Olympic medal count per capita? (Vancouver trivia break)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/nflag-706233.jpeg\"><img style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 130px;height: 79px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/nflag-706231.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/olympic-medals\/\">the US is leading the pack in total medals so far, with 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ve only won one Olympic medal for every 17.8 million people in America.<\/p>\n<p>Norway, meanwhile, has won a medal for every .5 million people.  <\/p>\n<p>Yup, by this calculus they&#8217;re doing 35 times better than we are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, if we were matching the Norwegians&#8217; per capita medal output, we&#8217;d have won 595 medals so far.<\/p>\n<p>Which would be AMAZING, given that only around 100 medals have been handed out so far.<\/p>\n<p>On our global news program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/the-world.html?gclid=CMGEio3P_Z8CFUVn5QodWiAnkQ\">The World<\/a> last night, someone pointed out grudgingly that the Norwegians only have fish and winter sports.<\/p>\n<p>But I think the person who said that was from Sweden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the US is leading the pack in total medals so far, with 17. But [&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\/1629"}],"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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}