{"id":12650,"date":"2017-04-06T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=12650"},"modified":"2017-04-06T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:03:09","slug":"after-nearly-injuring-spectators-on-his-first-throws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/after-nearly-injuring-spectators-on-his-first-throws\/","title":{"rendered":"after nearly injuring spectators on his first throws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12651\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12651\" class=\"wp-image-12651\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BASA-3K-7-422-22-Robert_Garrett_throwing_the_discus_at_1896_Summer_Olympics.jpeg\" alt=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:BASA-3K-7-422-22-Robert_Garrett_throwing_the_discus_at_1896_Summer_Olympics.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BASA-3K-7-422-22-Robert_Garrett_throwing_the_discus_at_1896_Summer_Olympics.jpeg 631w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BASA-3K-7-422-22-Robert_Garrett_throwing_the_discus_at_1896_Summer_Olympics-227x300.jpeg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(robert garrett, via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:BASA-3K-7-422-22-Robert_Garrett_throwing_the_discus_at_1896_Summer_Olympics.jpg\">wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/06\/briefing\/syria-stephen-bannon-pepsi.html?_r=0\">today&#8217;s daily briefing<\/a> about the history of the olympics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"93\" data-total-count=\"5041\">The first Olympics featured nine sports across 43 events, and produced some charming stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"216\" data-total-count=\"5257\">Robert Garrett, an American, had never seen a discus. To practice, he had a blacksmith forge \u2014 based on classical accounts \u2014 \u201ca 12-inch discus that weighed 30 pounds and <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2004-08-14\/features\/0408140067_1_robert-garrett-john-work-garrett-discus\">was impossible to throw any distance<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-15\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"265\" data-total-count=\"5522\">When he arrived in Athens, he learned that a discus was only about eight inches across and weighed less than five pounds. After nearly injuring spectators on his first throws, he won the gold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from today&#8217;s daily briefing about the history of the olympics: The first Olympics featured nine sports across 43 events, and produced some charming stories. Robert Garrett, an American, had never seen a discus. To practice, he had a blacksmith forge \u2014 based on classical accounts \u2014 \u201ca 12-inch discus that weighed 30 pounds and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12652,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}