{"id":8,"date":"2006-02-16T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54leacock.ca\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-11-26T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T18:42:44","slug":"speedy-geezers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Speedy geezers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgarian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/sports\/skeleton\/stories\/index.shtml?\/story\/olympics\/national\/2006\/02\/17\/Sports\/skeleton_men060217.html\"> Duff Gibson&#8217;s gold medal <\/a> not only proves that he can hurl himself down an icy chute on a tea tray at higher speed than anyone else in the world, it also revived the Olympic dream for many of us. At 39, he had 4 years and 0.26 of a second on silver medalist Jeff Pain of Calgary, 2 years and 0.92 of a second on bronze medalist Gregor Staehli of Switerland, and 8 years and 1.12 seconds on fourth place finisher Paul Boehm of Calgary. In fact, you have to go all the way down to seventh place before finding a youngster still in his twenties. Hurrah, geezers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgarian Duff Gibson&#8217;s gold medal not only proves that he can hurl himself down an icy chute on a tea tray at higher speed than anyone else in the world, it also revived the Olympic dream for many of us. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/?p=8\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}