{"id":2351,"date":"2008-09-09T22:33:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/09\/paralympics\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:33:49","slug":"paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a stat for you:<br \/>\nNumber of hours of coverage of the Beijing Olympics on US television: 3,600 (2,900 of which was live)<br \/>\nNumber of hours of coverage of the Beijing Paralympics on US television: 1.5 (0 of which is live)<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s right. Of all the US TV channels, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/05\/where-americans-can-watch-the-paralympics\/\">a single<\/a> 90 minute highlights in the middle of next month. That&#8217;s it.<br \/>\nThe BBC, incidentally, is showing 5-6 hours live a day (albeit on digital) alongside a nightly one hour highlights package on BBC2, with more live action at the weekend.<br \/>\nIn the 2012 London Paralympics, I think it&#8217;s a fair assumption that the US team will probably include a significant number of athletes who are ex-military and have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a stat for you: Number of hours of coverage of the Beijing Olympics on US television: 3,600 (2,900 of which was live) Number of hours of coverage of the Beijing Paralympics on US television: 1.5 (0 of which is live) That&#8217;s right. Of all the US TV channels, there is a single 90 minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}