{"id":223,"date":"2014-02-08T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-02-08T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:20:17","slug":"greece-was-not-making-lgbt-statement-with-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/08\/greece-was-not-making-lgbt-statement-with-gloves\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece was not making LGBT statement with gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/greecetwitter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is Greece coming out during the Olympic Ceremony. Many thought that the rainbow gloves the team members from Greece were wearing were \u00a0in support of the LGBT community, and against Russia&#8217;s anti-gay politcs.<\/p>\n<p>Those many sources were way too quick to react.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227 aligncenter\" alt=\"gloves\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/gloves.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/gloves.jpg 371w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/gloves-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, those are the official gloves of the Sochi Olympics. The fingers being the color of the rings. This was not a statement regarding Russia&#8217;s politics, unlike <a title=\"Lesbian snowboarder Cheryl Maas shows rainbow glove to camera in Sochi\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/07\/lesbian-snowboarder-cheryl-maas-shows-rainbow-glove-to-camera-in-sochi\/\">Cheryl Maas&#8217;s glove throw<\/a> at the camera yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Greece coming out during the Olympic Ceremony. Many thought that the rainbow gloves the team members from Greece were wearing were \u00a0in support of the LGBT community, and against Russia&#8217;s anti-gay politcs. Those many sources were way too quick to react. Yeah, those are the official gloves of the Sochi Olympics. The fingers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,8,15],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nsfw","9":"tag-olympics-2","10":"tag-sochi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}