{"id":5731,"date":"2019-12-09T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2019-12-09T03:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:24:15","slug":"kenworthy-switches-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/12\/09\/kenworthy-switches-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenworthy Switches Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sorry to report that <strong>Gus Kenworthy <\/strong>has switched teams.&nbsp; I know \u2013 you\u2019re devastated.&nbsp; But don\u2019t worry \u2013 he\u2019s simply switched <em>Olympic <\/em>teams.&nbsp; Turns out, Gus was born in the UK and calls his mother \u201cBritish through-and-through.&nbsp; She has been my #1 fan for my entire life and has proudly stood at the bottom of the mountain waving the stars and stripes in support of me for two <em>Olympic <\/em>cycles.&nbsp; Now, in what is sure to be my last <em>Olympic <\/em>appearance, I\u2019d like to return the honor by proudly holding up the British flag for her.\u201d&nbsp; Isn\u2019t that a lovely story?&nbsp; But I don\u2019t buy it.&nbsp; When previous <em>Olympians <\/em>have done this, it\u2019s because the competition to make <em>Team USA <\/em>towards the end of their career is fierce, while joining a foreign team is almost guaranteed.&nbsp; On the other hand, I could be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sorry to report that Gus Kenworthy has switched teams.&nbsp; I know \u2013 you\u2019re devastated.&nbsp; But don\u2019t worry \u2013 he\u2019s simply switched Olympic teams.&nbsp; Turns out, Gus was born in the UK and calls his mother \u201cBritish through-and-through.&nbsp; She has been my #1 fan for my entire life and has proudly stood at the bottom<\/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-5731","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\/5731","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=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5732,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}