{"id":1116,"date":"2008-08-08T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:17","slug":"old-glory-new-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Old Glory, New Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"231\" title=\"ll2.jpg\" id=\"image1117\" alt=\"ll2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ll2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From &#8220;Lost Boy&#8221; of Sudan to American standard-bearer&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/olympics\/beijing\/2008-08-08-lomong-flagbearer_N.htm\">Lopez Lomong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/huntsvilletimes\/mmccarter.ssf?\/base\/sports\/1218186917288430.xml&#038;coll=1\">I love this country.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we are good, we can be very, very good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/es.eurosport.yahoo.com\/080808\/48\/si8n.html\">Here&#8217;s the one<\/a> I&#8217;ve been waiting for. I totally dig <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/fashion\/2008-08-08-olympic-uniforms_N.htm\">the <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/fashion\/2008-08-08-olympic-uniforms_N.htm\">Ralph Lauren <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/lifestyle\/fashion\/2008-08-08-olympic-uniforms_N.htm\">throwback  threads<\/a>. An obvious nod to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chariots_of_Fire\"><em>Chariots of Fire<\/em><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--29ddc1d3922d14f4c171dec77fa0aa87-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--29ddc1d3922d14f4c171dec77fa0aa87--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Lost Boy&#8221; of Sudan to American standard-bearer&#8211;Lopez Lomong. I love this country. When we are good, we can be very, very good&#8230; UPDATE: Here&#8217;s the one I&#8217;ve been waiting for. I totally dig the Ralph&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,23,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}