{"id":551,"date":"2012-07-25T01:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T05:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=551"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:26:04","slug":"olympic-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/olympic-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/summer_olympics1_f.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-552\" title=\"summer_olympics1_f\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/summer_olympics1_f-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"Science of the Summer Olympics\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/summer_olympics1_f-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/summer_olympics1_f.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The new video\u00a0series,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science360.gov\/series\/Science+Of+The+Summer+Olympics\/84211b74-7ae1-4d9b-9024-5faa6300fc29\">Science of the Summer Olympics: Engineering In Sports<\/a>, is just what I needed to assuage my anticipation for the start of the London Olympic Games (just days away!).<\/p>\n<p>This partnership between the U.S.\u00a0National Science Foundation and NBC brings athletes and engineers together to share their experiences and perspectives. For example, you can learn about the biomechanics of\u00a06 ft. 5 in. sprinter, Usain Bolt, or the design of the pool at the London Aquatic Centre that promises to maximize speed and minimize waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new video\u00a0series,\u00a0Science of the Summer Olympics: Engineering In Sports, is just what I needed to assuage my anticipation for the start of the London Olympic Games (just days away!). This partnership between the U.S.\u00a0National Science Foundation and NBC brings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/olympic-fever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,15],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}