{"id":44933,"date":"2014-01-28T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44933"},"modified":"2014-01-28T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:20:10","slug":"australian-olympians-parents-staying-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44933","title":{"rendered":"Australian Olympian&#8217;s Parents Staying Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scott_james0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44934\" alt=\"scott_james0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scott_james0-200x133.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scott_james0-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scott_james0.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>After 34 people were killed last month near Sochi, Australian Olympian <strong>Scotty James<\/strong>\u00a0(shown right in a classic no-grab air-shot wire photo) has reportedly told his parents to stay home while he&#8217;s in Sochi, according to a radio interview with his father Phil on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3aw.com.au\/blogs\/3aw-drive-blog-with-tom-elliott\/snowboarder-tells-parents-stay-away\/20140128-31kn2.html\"><strong>3AW<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cScott didn\u2019t really understand \u2026 what was happening in Russia and we explained it\u2019s been going on for a long time and potentially there could be some problems,\u201d he said. . .\u00a0\u201cHe went and slept on it, and the next day he came to us and said \u2026 \u2018I\u2019d be happier if you don\u2019t go because I know you\u2019ll all be safe in Australia\u2019. . .\u00a0\u201c(He said) \u2019it\u2019ll also give me the opportunity to focus on my event and not have to worry about where you\u2019re going to be\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With more attacks reportedly promised, we&#8217;re hoping the athletes are on lockdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3aw.com.au\/blogs\/3aw-drive-blog-with-tom-elliott\/snowboarder-tells-parents-stay-away\/20140128-31kn2.html\">3AW<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 34 people were killed last month near Sochi, Australian Olympian Scotty James\u00a0(shown right in a classic no-grab air-shot wire photo) has reportedly told his parents to stay home while he&#8217;s in Sochi, according to a radio interview with his father Phil on 3AW. \u201cScott didn\u2019t really understand \u2026 what was happening in Russia and [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44935,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933\/revisions\/44935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}