{"id":184,"date":"2010-02-12T19:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:42:01","slug":"olympic-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/12\/olympic-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s time for the world&#8217;s greatest sporting event to begin, and this year it&#8217;s Canada&#8217;s time to shine! I figured that this year I&#8217;d show my support and patriotism through some creative insect editing! Stay tuned throughout the course of the Olympic games to find some of the smallest competitors! But first, a shout out to the fans who stand behind the athletes and cheer them on!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Olympic-Mitts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-185\" title=\"This may not be a Fanniidae, but it's still a big Fan!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Olympic-Mitts-700x465.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshopped Xylomiid fly wearing Olympic mittens\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Olympic-Mitts-700x465.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Olympic-Mitts-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Olympic-Mitts-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Olympic-Mitts.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all the athletes competing this year, and lets hope that the remainder of the games will be safe for all the competitors after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/luge\/story\/2010\/02\/12\/spo-luge-georgian-alert.html\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s tragic accident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I offer my sincerest condolences to Nodar Kumaritashvili&#8217;s family, friends, and teammates.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s time for the world&#8217;s greatest sporting event to begin, and this year it&#8217;s Canada&#8217;s time to shine! I figured that this year I&#8217;d show my support and patriotism through some creative insect editing! Stay tuned throughout the course of the Olympic games to find some of the smallest competitors! But first, a shout <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/12\/olympic-spirit\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entomology","category-pop-culture","category-4-id","category-16-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}