{"id":7526,"date":"2008-08-19T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2008-08-19T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T05:32:00","slug":"so-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/so-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"So, wait."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/43006000\/jpg\/_43006855_james_wren_416.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/43006000\/jpg\/_43006855_james_wren_416.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Baseball and softball are the first two sports dropped from the Olympics since, like, 1936, and they&#8217;re keeping <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">trampoline?!<\/span> Could it be anti-Americanism? <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">S\u00ed. Ja. Oui.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuglstatter.com\/us_uk_flag.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuglstatter.com\/us_uk_flag.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Speaking of anti-Americanism, the Gormogons would like to thank the iconoclastic Britons at <a href=\"http:\/\/americaintheworld.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">America in the World<\/a> very much from the bottom of our red, white, and blue hearts. The port and a toast to the Treaty of Ghent are on us.<\/p>\n<p><small>No, that&#8217;s not the real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">London Olympic logo<\/a>, which is an abomination against God, man, Jesse Owens, Johnny Weissmuller, Paavo Nurmi, and the whole freakin&#8217; Kalenjin tribe. It&#8217;s something someone whipped up for a BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/6719747.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;bet you can do better&#8221; contest<\/a>. And, yep, it&#8217;s better.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball and softball are the first two sports dropped from the Olympics since, like, 1936, and they&#8217;re keeping trampoline?! Could it be anti-Americanism? S\u00ed. Ja. Oui. 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