{"id":1155,"date":"2008-08-20T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:15","slug":"a-ping-from-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"A Ping From Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a ping from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Politburo? Chinese secret police? Margaret Hoelzer?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Just <em>THT<\/em>&#8216;s intrepid man-on-the-ground in Beijing, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/mccarter\/\">Mark McCarter:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mike&#8230;Thanks for making my coverage part of your site, and for the nice plugs.<\/p>\n<p>All the best&#8230;Mark<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My pleasure, Mark; you&#8217;ve done a great job over there. I hope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1139\">all that beach volleyball hasn&#8217;t stressed you out too much.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give my regards to LeBron and Kobe, wouldya?\n<\/p>\n<p><!--948f4eea03385aa082d41b1001d8f105-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--815f048bf4d68a0f4e5011a7c0334810--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a ping from Beijing. Politburo? Chinese secret police? Margaret Hoelzer? Nope. Just THT&#8216;s intrepid man-on-the-ground in Beijing, Mark McCarter: Mike&#8230;Thanks for making my coverage part of your site, and for the nice plugs.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,23,20,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-huntsville","category-sports","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9315,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/9315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}