{"id":2131,"date":"2016-08-15T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2016-08-15T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:04:50","slug":"us-gymnasts-show-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/us-gymnasts-show-off\/","title":{"rendered":"US Gymnasts Show Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start this week&#8217;s column by applauding the US men&#8217;s gymnastic team.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m not applauding them for any professional achievement.\u00a0 I&#8217;m applauding them because they&#8217;ve blatantly asked for the media to objectify them.\u00a0 And, in a striking departure from my typical sexual <em>modus operandi<\/em>, I am happy to take this direction.\u00a0 The team has posed for numerous shirtless pics and deluged social media with same.\u00a0 Prior to the <strong><em>Olympics<\/em><\/strong>, all-around national champion <strong>Sam Mikulak <\/strong>wondered how to get the attention of the American people (and, perhaps, score some financially lucrative endorsement deals post-Rio).\u00a0 His answer?\u00a0 &#8220;Maybe compete with our shirts off.\u00a0 People make fun of us for wearing tights.\u00a0 But if they saw how yoked we are maybe that would make a difference.&#8221;\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know exactly what this &#8220;yoked&#8221; is, but I&#8217;m all for anything that delivers a little flesh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start this week&#8217;s column by applauding the US men&#8217;s gymnastic team.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m not applauding them for any professional achievement.\u00a0 I&#8217;m applauding them because they&#8217;ve blatantly asked for the media to objectify them.\u00a0 And, in a striking departure from my typical sexual modus operandi, I am happy to take this direction.\u00a0 The team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}