{"id":1649,"date":"2008-08-21T13:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T09:58:48","slug":"olympic-rock-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/olympic-rock-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Rock News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>AP: Olympic Rock News<\/p>\n<p>By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK<br \/>\nPublished: August 22, 2008<\/p>\n<p>In was announced earlier this morning that the <strong>International Olympic Committee<\/strong> will investigate whether the Chinese women&#8217;s gymnastics team that won the gold medal had underage athletes.  IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said &#8220;There certainly seems to be a lot of scantily clad pre-teen Chinese girls strutting around the Bird&#8217;s Nest these days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/he.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"355\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Within seemingly minutes <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> guitarist <em>Jimmy Page<\/em> announced that he will be playing The Olympic Closing Ceremony in the Bird&#8217;s Nest on Sunday.  A publicist for Gary Glitter said that Gary is &#8220;distressed&#8221; that he won&#8217;t be able to participate due to a prior <em>booking<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/21\/closing-ceremony-to-feature-6800-performers-and-jimmy-page\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: Olympic Rock News By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK Published: August 22, 2008 In was announced earlier this morning that the International Olympic Committee will investigate whether the Chinese women&#8217;s gymnastics team that won the gold medal had underage athletes. IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said &#8220;There certainly seems to be a lot of scantily clad pre-teen Chinese <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/olympic-rock-news\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}