{"id":8995,"date":"2017-01-26T21:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T02:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:06:05","slug":"lindsey-vonns-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8995","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn&#8217;s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Less than a year ago,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">tore the\u00a0anterior cruciate,\u00a0ligament<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and medial collateral ligament<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in her\u00a0right knee and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">fractured her tibia\u00a0during\u00a0a harrowing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ski\u00a0accident in Schlamding, Austria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV1-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV1.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Vonn was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in Schladming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV2-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV2.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Concerned she wouldn\u2019t be ready<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for the 2018 Winter Olympics,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the U.S. Olympic Committee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">announced\u00a0today her spot on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the\u00a0U.S. Olympic Team would be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">filled by Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV3-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV3-450x359.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LV3.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">U.S. Olympic officials said<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Obama deserved the spot on the team<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because no one has ever<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">taken a country downhill<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">faster than he has.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Thank you to all who stuff our e-mailbox daily with jokes and articles. <\/em><em>Through 2017, By George will attempt to re-post as many of the funniest political jokes &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><em>with the condition that they are not mean spirited. Hope you will enjoy them:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?tag=joke\">posts tagged joke<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a year ago, Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn tore the\u00a0anterior cruciate,\u00a0ligament and medial collateral ligament in her\u00a0right knee and fractured her tibia\u00a0during\u00a0a harrowing ski\u00a0accident in Schlamding, Austria. Vonn was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in Schladming. Concerned she wouldn\u2019t be ready for the 2018 Winter Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced\u00a0today her spot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}