{"id":508,"date":"2008-08-26T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-09-12T20:36:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:36:56","slug":"2008-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/family\/2008-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I was glued to the Olympics more this year than ever before. I love the watching the swimming, diving and gymnastics. This year seemed to completely take the event to an entire new level and one that I doubt that many other countries will be able to compete with ever again. The fact that China spent an estimated 40 Billion dollars on this event as a whole blows my mind. This was not just the Olympics to them. It was transforming our vision of China and their future. They were investing into their country.<\/p>\n<p>As a photographer we were constantly watching the other photographers and their coverage of the games. What an experience it would have been. The amount of World Records alone that happened not to mention the opening and closing ceremonies. I saw someone post a link of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsweek.com\/blogs\/olympicpix\/archive\/tags\/Vincent+Laforet\/default.aspx\">Vincent Laforet&#8217;s<\/a> images from the games. They are truly amazing and I admired the unique way in which he captured the games. I thought I would put up two of my favorite diving images. I hope you enjoyed this world event as much as we did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__35__af_9301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-510\" title=\"20080824_laforet_0823__35__af_9301\" src=\"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__35__af_9301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__35__af_9301.jpg 449w, http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__35__af_9301-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhotograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__34__af_9247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-509\" title=\"20080824_laforet_0823__34__af_9247\" src=\"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__34__af_9247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__34__af_9247.jpg 449w, http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080824_laforet_0823__34__af_9247-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhotograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK<\/p>\n<div class=\"pp-post-sig\"><a href=\"#contact-form\">Inquire for your Wedding or Portrait Session<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I was glued to the Olympics more this year than ever before. I love the watching the swimming, diving and gymnastics. This year seemed to completely take the event to an entire new level and one that I doubt that many other countries will be able to compete with ever again. The fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[1505,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/6offour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}