{"id":54,"date":"2008-04-07T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/04\/07\/on-the-loss-of-the-light\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:31:00","slug":"on-the-loss-of-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/04\/07\/on-the-loss-of-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Loss of the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. – Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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The Olympic torch was extinguished three times on it’s procession in Paris.(april 6-7) <\/span>This does not bode well for the games. <\/span>It was extinguished willingly so it could pass on it’s own thru protesters. <\/span>Protesters tried to put it out but were unable to themselves. <\/span>Since then it was only put out in 2004 <\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p>The Olympic flame has many names but it symbolizes the theft of fire from the Greek god ZEUS by Prometheus who gave it to man; Basically lighting the way for all our discoveries.<\/font>But really, what are the Olympics now? Is it just an extended commercial enterprise? <\/span>For most countries it’ is their defining moment, just to be invited, to compete is glorious enough. <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

To the host country it’s a way to show off their pageantry. <\/span><\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p><\/o:p>Pretty much, ever single place the Olympics has been has experienced an economic boom, about 2-3 years later. <\/span>After the Olympics the local economy is a wreck as millions<\/strike> billions of dollars are drained back out. <\/span>Local Municipalities sometimes collapse; Thou none as absolute as Sarajevo<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> that doesn’t even exist anymore. <\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p>What does happen is the name is imprinted in the minds of people worldwide and it becomes a place to visit and perhaps live, somewhere they never thought about before. <\/span>In effect, the Sprit of the Olympics is forever and permanently etched in where ever it is held. <\/span>Who can’t remember the names Lillehammer<\/st1:city>, Munich<\/st1:city>, Nagano<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. <\/span>Each name is a hope and a bitter memory recalled. <\/span><\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Let’s jump back. <\/span>The torch was put out. There is a symbol to that: a dream died, a world under siege. I don’t know about you, but if it fails to light in Beijing<\/st1:city> I\u2019m never going to China<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. <\/font><\/p>\n

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The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. – Abraham Lincoln   The Olympic torch was extinguished three times on it’s procession in Paris.(april 6-7) This does not bode well for the games. It was extinguished willingly so it could pass on it’s own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[180,179],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-olympic-flame","tag-olympics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}