{"id":790337,"date":"2018-12-09T19:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T02:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/olympic-pitch-maybe-its-colorados-time\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T02:44:01","slug":"olympic-pitch-maybe-its-colorados-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/olympic-pitch-maybe-its-colorados-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic pitch: Maybe it\u2019s Colorado\u2019s time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/olympic-pitch-maybe-its-colorados-time\/\">Andrew Kenney<\/a><\/span>  The Olympic Games are political plutonium.<br \/>\nSince 2014, voters and politicians in Boston, Budapest, Calgary, Hamburg, Oslo and Krakow have shot down bids for the games. It&#8217;s a global revolt powered by images of abandoned bobsled tracks, empty stadiums and blown budgets in the tens of billions of dollars.<br \/>\nIn Denver, citizen organizers have launched a campaign that would limit the region&#8217;s play for the 2030 Winter Games. The Olympics already have become a symbol for challengers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/olympic-pitch-maybe-its-colorados-time\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/olympic-pitch-maybe-its-colorados-time\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Olympic pitch: Maybe it\u2019s Colorado\u2019s time\">Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Games are political plutonium.<br \/>\nSince 2014, voters and politicians in Boston, Budapest, Calgary, Hamburg, Oslo and Krakow have shot down bids for the games. It&#8217;s a global revolt powered by images of abandoned bobsled tracks, empty stadiums and blown budgets in the tens of billions of dollars.<br \/>\nIn Denver, citizen organizers have launched a campaign that would limit the region&#8217;s play for the 2030 Winter Games. The Olympics already have become a symbol for challengers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/olympic-pitch-maybe-its-colorados-time\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-790337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 01:22:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}