{"id":361,"date":"2006-02-18T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=361"},"modified":"2006-02-18T21:36:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T04:36:03","slug":"taciturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2006\/02\/taciturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Taciturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does being a Gold Medal Winner mean that you have to be effusively communicative with the people whom paid $600M to broadcast the games?<\/p>\n<p>NBC&#8217;s interview with Shani Davis after he won the gold medal in the 1000 meter skating event was disgusting at best.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anyone is obligated to provide the media with an interview (unless contractually obligated, I know that the pros can get dinged for not giving interviews, but I don&#8217;t think Olympic Athletes are supposed to qualify as Pros) and I don&#8217;t think the media should even attempt to prejudge why an interviewee may or may not be responsive to the interviewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does being a Gold Medal Winner mean that you have to be effusively communicative with the people whom paid $600M to broadcast the games? NBC&#8217;s interview with Shani Davis after he won the gold medal in the 1000 meter skating event was disgusting at best. I don&#8217;t think anyone is obligated to provide the media &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2006\/02\/taciturn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taciturn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4NpF-taciturn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}