{"id":1169,"date":"2008-08-24T18:45:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:14","slug":"so-who-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"So, Who Won?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese would say they did based on gold medals, 51-36.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans would say they did based on total medals, 110-100.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we split the difference and scored it on a weighted system, 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze? Seems like a reasonable idea to me.<\/p>\n<p>Final score: China 223, U.S. 220.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, that&#8217;s close. And to think, we were only a couple of dropped batons and a few underaged gymnasts away from taking the whole thing.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--beed66aaf13f35bbf79ef8faba9ebf56--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese would say they did based on gold medals, 51-36. The Americans would say they did based on total medals, 110-100. But what if we split the difference and scored it on a weighted system,&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-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-sports","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9301,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/9301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}