{"id":2655,"date":"2012-08-05T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2022-11-08T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:43:41","slug":"london-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"London 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t just indifferent to the Olympics during the build up to it, I actually felt quite negative about it.  I didn&#8217;t have any faith that it would be any good.  Then I watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/2012\/live-video\/p00wm0br\">opening ceremony<\/a> (after the event as I was working at the time) and was completely blown away.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2659\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/British-athletics-medals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/British-athletics-medals-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Olympics Day 8: British gold medal winners\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/British-athletics-medals-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/British-athletics-medals.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympics Day 8: British athletics' gold medal winners.  Taken from http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday was one of the best Saturdays I can remember.  Great Britain had it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/olympics\/19125093\">best Olympic day<\/a> for over a hundred years.  I&#8217;m not much of a sports fan but I was incredibly happy.  Fantastic day.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/olympics\/19137390\">Ben Ainslie winning a gold medal and making British Olympic history<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/olympics\/18907001\">Andy Murray has beaten Roger Federer to get gold<\/a>, with his defeat to Federer in the Wimbledon final just 4 weeks ago seemingly forgotten.  What a proud weekend for the British!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t just indifferent to the Olympics during the build up to it, I actually felt quite negative about it. I didn&#8217;t have any faith that it would be any good. Then I watched the opening ceremony (after the event as I was working at the time) and was completely blown away. Yesterday was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}