{"id":43325,"date":"2013-09-12T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43325"},"modified":"2013-10-30T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:36:52","slug":"seth-wescott-denounces-russias-gay-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43325","title":{"rendered":"Seth Wescott Denounces Russia&#8217;s Gay Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Wescott_llbean_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27326\" alt=\"Wescott_llbean_2011.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Wescott_llbean_2011.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><strong>Seth Wescott,<\/strong> the two-time Olympic Boardercross Gold Medalist, has taken a stand against Russia&#8217;s &#8220;anti-gay propaganda&#8221; laws ahead of the <strong>Sochi Olympics<\/strong>, according to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/seth-wescott-denounces-russian-anti-gay-law-20231547\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wescott told The Associated Press on Wednesday that there&#8217;s potential for February&#8217;s games in Sochi (SOH&#8217;-chee) to be a &#8220;negatively-overshadowed Olympics&#8221; because of Russia&#8217;s law prohibiting promotion of &#8220;nontraditional&#8221; sexual relations. Activists have denounced the law and called for a boycott of the games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Add this to the list of very good reasons that the Sochi Olympics should be boycotted, but it won&#8217;t be because there&#8217;s just too much damn money at stake for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/seth-wescott-denounces-russian-anti-gay-law-20231547\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Wescott, the two-time Olympic Boardercross Gold Medalist, has taken a stand against Russia&#8217;s &#8220;anti-gay propaganda&#8221; laws ahead of the Sochi Olympics, according to the Associated Press. Wescott told The Associated Press on Wednesday that there&#8217;s potential for February&#8217;s games in Sochi (SOH&#8217;-chee) to be a &#8220;negatively-overshadowed Olympics&#8221; because of Russia&#8217;s law prohibiting promotion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43915,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325\/revisions\/43915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}