{"id":5704,"date":"2008-08-16T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorebates.wordpress.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:31:31","slug":"bate-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/08\/16\/bate-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Olympian!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-226 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/aviewfrompage.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/byrne-picture.jpg?w=250&amp;h=268\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"268\" \/>As you may remember from an earlier blog, I am completely obsessed with sports. So obviously since getting back from camp I have been watching as much of the Olympics as I possibly can. I will literally watch any sport possible. From the popular events (I have watched Michael Phelps in his quest for 8 gold medals and the USA basketball team in its attempt to recapture gold after a horrific performance in Athens 4 years ago) to less admired events such as beach volleyball, rowing, and cycling, I will watch anything.  Imagine my surprise when I was on the Bates website today and came across an article about a Bates graduate who is in the olympics.  Andrew Byrnes (\u201905) rows for the Canadian Olympic men\u2019s 8 team and after winning the preliminary heat will have a chance as winning an olympic medal. <a href=\"http:\/\/aviewfrompage.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/16\/bates-olympian\/\">[More&#8230;]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am completely obsessed with sports. So obviously since getting back from camp I have been watching as much of the Olympics as I possibly can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,24,11009],"tags":[10774,11051,3893,6636,7621],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-the-college","tag-asia","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-gold-medal","tag-olympics","tag-rowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62631,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/62631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}