{"id":9211,"date":"2021-05-16T03:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T03:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2021-05-16T03:41:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T03:41:55","slug":"carrie-lams-tokyo-olympics-tv-deal-a-bid-to-dial-back-hong-kongs-patriotic-clock-to-beijing-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9211","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Lam\u2019s Tokyo Olympics TV deal: a bid to dial back Hong Kong\u2019s patriotic clock to Beijing 2008?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostIn the third instalment of our Tokyo Trail series on key issues surrounding the Olympics, we look at why Hong Kong\u2019s government snapped up broadcast rights to the Games.It may sound surreal now, but tens of thousands of Hongkongers turned out to cheer for the Beijing Olympic torch relay when it came to the city in 2008.Local residents took pride in China winning 51 gold medals at the Games that year, surpassing America\u2019s 36, and mainland officials could be confident that most Hongkongers were\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/lifestyle-culture\/article\/3133564\/carrie-lams-tokyo-olympics-tv-deal-bid-dial-back-hong\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostIn the third instalment of our Tokyo Trail series on key issues surrounding the Olympics, we look at why Hong Kong\u2019s government snapped up broadcast rights&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}