{"id":197,"date":"2015-12-23T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-12-23T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:12:36","slug":"50-9-22-00-on-the-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"50: 9-22-00 On the Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the Plane<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>9\/22\/00<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:25 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_198\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/People-B\u00e9la_K\u00e1rolyi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bela Karolyi\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/People-B\u00e9la_K\u00e1rolyi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/People-B\u00e9la_K\u00e1rolyi.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bela Karolyi<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m in love. In love once again with the Olympic experience. Here I am, at the end of my epic experience, waiting to taxi down the runway, and I have been infected once again. Although I\u2019ve spent a week in the Olympic City, surrounded by the sights and sounds of the Games, only now does the experience hit home. I can make no more of a poignant example than the fact that the world famous women\u2019s gymnastics coach Bela-What\u2019s his name \u00a0<em>[Editor: <\/em><\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%C3%A9la_K%C3%A1rolyi\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B\u00e9la K\u00e1rolyi<\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>]<\/em> is sitting 5 rows in front of me. Why he\u2019s in economy class, I do not know. For 10 minutes I gawked in awe as a triathlete conversed one row over. My trip may now be over, but the Dream is Alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>KC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Plane 9\/22\/00 Friday 2:25 PM I\u2019m in love. In love once again with the Olympic experience. Here I am, at the end of my epic experience, waiting to taxi down the runway, and I have been infected once&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-returnfromaustralia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}