{"id":24718,"date":"2016-02-11T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=24718"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T15:26:22","slug":"ex-world-sailing-chief-voted-out-for-trying-to-oust-polluted-olympic-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2016\/02\/ex-world-sailing-chief-voted-out-for-trying-to-oust-polluted-olympic-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-World Sailing Chief Voted Out for Trying to Oust Polluted Olympic Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The former chief executive of World Sailing has claimed he was fired for pushing to get rid of the polluted Guanabara Bay, Brazil as the venue for the sport at the Rio Olympics. Peter Sowrey tried to change the venue but was \u201ctold to gag myself on the subject\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/jan\/26\/world-sailing-polluted-olympic-venue-guanabara-bay-peter-sowrey\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former chief executive of World Sailing has claimed he was fired for pushing to get rid of the polluted Guanabara Bay, Brazil as the venue for the sport at the Rio Olympics. Peter Sowrey tried to change the venue but was \u201ctold to gag myself on the subject\u201d. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[918,917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24769,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions\/24769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}