{"id":2702,"date":"2010-02-15T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2010\/02\/vancouver_a_sel\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T09:06:08","slug":"vancouver_a_sel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/vancouver_a_sel\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver A Sell Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Vancouver organising committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportbusiness.com\/news\/171934\/first-olympics-ticket-sell-out-expected-at-vancouver\">all 1.6m tickets<\/a> for the Winter Olympics are expected to sell out.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m always very suspicious of claims like that. Especially as I watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/olympic_games\/vancouver_2010\/ice_hockey\/8515625.stm\">USA v China Women&#8217;s Ice Hockey<\/a> last night, and there were plenty of seats available. And I don&#8217;;t just mean a couple of no-shows at the last minute, I mean rows of empty seats. Now considering that the USA have demolished China on every occassion they&#8217;ve met on the rink, that&#8217;s perhaps not surprising &#8211; most of us prefer not to see one-sided contests.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure the Vancouver games <I>will<\/I> be very well attended, but making claims that can disproved simply by turning on your television does nobody any good. Even the commentators highlighted the empty seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Vancouver organising committee, all 1.6m tickets for the Winter Olympics are expected to sell out. I&#8217;m always very suspicious of claims like that. Especially as I watched the USA v China Women&#8217;s Ice Hockey last night, and there were plenty of seats available. And I don&#8217;;t just mean a couple of no-shows [&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],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}