{"id":1060,"date":"2008-08-26T17:09:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2008-08-26T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T16:09:55","slug":"who-won-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Who won the Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the host nation China won the largest number of gold medals (51) which, in the official ranking, puts them top. But, if you count all the medals, then the USA leads with 110.<br \/>\nBut, suppose you didn&#8217;t count all the medals equally. Say you gave three points for a gold, two for a silver, and one for a bronze. Sounds reasonable. And, suppose you took into account population size. Seems fair.<br \/>\nOn this calculation, China &#8211; the official winner &#8211; only comes 65th. Great Britain &#8211; officially fourth &#8211; comes 22nd. Sorry, guys.<br \/>\nWhich country do you think would be top then? You&#8217;ll never guess &#8211; but you can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/unclebryan\/Polympic.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the host nation China won the largest number of gold medals (51) which, in the official ranking, puts them top. But, if you count all the medals, then the USA leads with 110. But, suppose you didn&#8217;t count all the medals equally. Say you gave three points for a gold, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}