{"id":346,"date":"2010-02-27T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2010-02-27T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:06:49","slug":"the-problem-with-the-ioc-in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"The problem with the IOC (in brief)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that we can distill the definition of the problem with the IOC down to one person: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1963484_1963490_1963932,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Hubertus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know that what&#8217;s wrong with the IOC can fill (and has already filled) several books but I say that if you want the short course, look no further than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Hubertus_of_Hohenlohe-Langenburg\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg<\/a>: a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hohenlohe-Langenburg\" target=\"_blank\">European aristocra<\/a>t playing ski racer (and &#8220;pop singer&#8221;, no less).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know Hubertus himself is not a member of the IOC. But just look at the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/en\/content\/The-IOC\/The-IOC-Institution1\/IOC-Members-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">IOC members<\/a>. Look at the members representing European countries. Some of them don&#8217;t even have <em>names<\/em>, just titles. They probably don&#8217;t have any idea what that looks like to us over here in this part of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that we can distill the definition of the problem with the IOC down to one person: Prince Hubertus. I know that what&#8217;s wrong with the IOC can fill (and has already filled) several books but I say that if you want the short course, look no further than Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}