{"id":1664,"date":"2010-02-26T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/26\/it-literally-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:32:00","slug":"it-literally-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/26\/it-literally-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this\/","title":{"rendered":"It literally doesn&#8217;t get any better than this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/NBDemongGold_1450LRc-790111.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 236px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/NBDemongGold_1450LRc-789994.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here&#8217;s Vermontville&#8217;s Bill Demong holding the gold.  Thanks to Nancie Battaglia for the amazing images.  Demong was chosen to bear the flag at Sunday&#8217;s closing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/news-features\/news\/newsid=448468.html\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Thursday night that Demong had been selected by fellow American Olympians. Earlier in the day, he won the country&#8217;s first gold medal in a Nordic sport. Demong was part of a 1-2 finish for the United States in the large hill competition at Nordic combined.<\/p>\n<p>Demong, who also proposed to his girlfriend Thursday night, called it &#8220;a whirlwind of a day.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Vermontville&#8217;s Bill Demong holding the gold. Thanks to Nancie Battaglia for the amazing images. [&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\/1664"}],"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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}