{"id":616,"date":"2006-02-11T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T17:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2006-02-11T13:29:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T18:29:11","slug":"616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"How could I forget a title?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when I was considering the idea of this website’s first officially endorsed Olympian, Georg Hackl of Germany (also known as “the sliding\/flying\/racing\/long white sausage” — depending on which source you’re listening to — I’m partial to “sliding” with “flying” just a hair behind), I read this<\/a>. After about the first 95% of the bio, I knew<\/em> I had my sausage! He’s a beer drinker, a member of Parliament, seems to have a great sense of humor, and he’s named after one of the most versatile foods on the planet. Then I find out he’s sued people for calling him a sausage.<\/p>\n

What a jackass.<\/p>\n

(More points in the sausage’s favor, however, from WikiPedia. Apparently, Hackl is also a decorated wok racer<\/a>, too.)<\/p>\n

It was also decided last night that at the next Olympics, the “parade of nations” will be liveblogged, and drinking in preparation for said parade will start around noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when I was considering the idea of this website’s first officially endorsed Olympian, Georg Hackl of Germany (also known as “the sliding\/flying\/racing\/long white sausage” — depending on which source you’re listening to — I’m partial to “sliding” with “flying” just a hair behind), I read this. After about the first 95% of the bio, … Continue reading How could I forget a title?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}