{"id":129,"date":"2008-04-09T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T23:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-04-09T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T23:04:38","slug":"we-saw-the-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"We Saw the Torch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3028\/2402120670_cbcfb45083.jpg?v=0\" height=\"311\" width=\"415\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I turned on the TV while I was nursing Robin, and they were showing live pictures of my street taken from a news helicopter!  Turned out the torch runners had been diverted to a route literally two blocks from my apartment.  So I thought, what the hey, let&#8217;s go see some history.<\/p>\n<p>And we did!  Robin naturally didn&#8217;t know what all the excitement was about but he smiled at everybody, and I took some pictures.  There was hardly anybody else there.  These runners passed about five feet from where I was standing on the sidewalk.  But as far as I could tell the torch wasn&#8217;t actually burning&#8212;I think the flame had already been handed off.  Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud of Gav for being sneaky and pulling this thing off.  China&#8217;s human rights record is atrocious and Sam and I have been known to donate money to pro-Tibet causes, but assaulting Olympic torchbearers is just wrong.  I&#8217;m glad San Francisco managed to host the torch successfully, and I&#8217;m glad I was lucky enough to (kind of) see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned on the TV while I was nursing Robin, and they were showing live pictures of my street taken from a news helicopter! Turned out the torch runners had been diverted to a route literally two blocks from my apartment. So I thought, what the hey, let&#8217;s go see some history. And we did! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}