{"id":976,"date":"2006-02-24T23:34:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T03:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=976"},"modified":"2006-02-24T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T03:35:26","slug":"olympics-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Olympics II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> decided <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/bob_sled.jpg\" title=\"Dutch bobsled team\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/bob_sled.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dutch bobsled team\" \/><\/a>to watch the Olympics at CBC and ended up watching the 4-men bobsled heats. The report only focussed on the Canadian sleds and the leading teams. In this sport that&#8217;s generally either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torino2006.org\/ENG\/IDF\/BS\/C51B_BSM040103.html\">Switzerland, Germany or Russia<\/a>. The final heats are Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>I briefly watched Canada&#8217;s<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/brue_ghel_cur_ling.jpg\" title=\"Brueghel, Pieter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/brue_ghel_cur_ling.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Brueghel, Pieter\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torino2006.org\/ENG\/IDF\/CU\/C54_CUM400Z19.html\">gold game curling<\/a>: to be honest, I&#8217;ve got no idea what this sport <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curling\">is all about<\/a>. For that matter, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cricket\">cricket<\/a> is one of those sports that I don&#8217;t understand either. Curling reminds of the Dutch boardgame <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sjoelen\">&#8216;sjoelen&#8217;<\/a> (Dutch) and even <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klootschieten\">&#8216;klootschieten&#8217;<\/a>. It surprised me to find out that there&#8217;s a &#8220;Dutch link&#8221; to the sports: the first painting showing &#8216;curlers&#8217; was painted by Flemish painter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder\">Brueghel<\/a>. Somebody should make a &#8216;curling&#8217; videogame<sup>1<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> Somebody <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamershell.com\/pc\/take_out_weight_curling_2\/review.html\">already did that. A Canadian too<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to watch the Olympics at CBC and ended up watching the 4-men bobsled heats. The report only focussed on the Canadian sleds and the leading teams. In this sport that&#8217;s generally either Switzerland, Germany or Russia. The final &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}