{"id":57,"date":"2004-08-13T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T02:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chappells.biz\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2004-11-30T12:43:01","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T17:43:01","slug":"olympics-and-time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/olympics-and-time-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics and Time Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympics.com\">Olympics<\/a> opening ceremonies. Sort of like the <a href=\"http:\/\/macyparade.com\">Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/a>, without floats. When I was a kid, and even into my 20&#8217;s, it seemed like a long time between Olympics. After 40, it seems like there&#8217;s an Olympics every year. That&#8217;s how much faster time seems to go by when you get older. Becky and I were discussing that phenomenon the other day. We agreed it must be because as kids, we packed our time with activities, whereas now we spend a lot of it just sitting around. But, that seems backward from the saying &#8220;time flies when you&#8217;re having fun&#8221;. I know I had a lot more fun as a kid. So, I don&#8217;t know why time is flying faster these days. Unless, maybe, it just really is. But, getting back to the Olympics, I wish I was listening more closely. The announcers were talking about the country with the only flag that has a front and back, different on each side. But I missed the name of the country. Darn! :confused2: If anybody knows, please share!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, amazing &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjork.com\/\">Bjork<\/a> debuting  her song <em>Oceania<\/em>!  Afterwards, opening remarks by the IOC president in what we&#8217;re told are the three official languages of the Olympics: Greek, French and English. How about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the Olympics opening ceremonies. Sort of like the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade, without floats. When I was a kid, and even into my 20&#8217;s, it seemed like a long time between Olympics. After 40, it seems like there&#8217;s an Olympics every year. That&#8217;s how much faster time seems to go by when you get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","comment-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}