{"id":6290,"date":"2020-02-24T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2020-02-24T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:46:10","slug":"louganis-bounces-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/louganis-bounces-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Louganis Bounces Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Caitlyn Jenner <\/strong>is about to make history by posing nude on the cover of <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>.&nbsp; Well, not completely nude \u2013 she\u2019ll be draped in an American flag.&nbsp; Believe it or not, that\u2019s not the controversial part.&nbsp; Caitlyn will also be sporting the <em>Olympic <\/em>medal Bruce won.&nbsp; This rubs people the wrong way, and it got me thinking \u2013 who won the medal?&nbsp; Caitlyn or <strong>Bruce<\/strong>?&nbsp; Would Caitlyn, who has all the genetic advantages of a male athlete, be able to participate in the Olympics as a woman?&nbsp; As a man?&nbsp; At all?&nbsp; I guess that\u2019s a question for the next generation.&nbsp; All I know is that she\u2019s wearing a medal and a flag.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s move onto a real Olympic hero \u2013 <strong>Greg Louganis<\/strong>.&nbsp; Do you realize that we have Greg to thank for <strong>Mario Lopez<\/strong>?&nbsp; Mario broke into adult roles by playing the lead in <strong><em>Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story<\/em><\/strong> for the <em>USA Network <\/em>(my dear friend <strong>Patrick David <\/strong>played Greg during his early years).&nbsp; So, who will be the next Mario Lopez?&nbsp; More accurately, who will be the next Greg Louganis?&nbsp; A new biopic about the diver is in development \u2013 this time for theatrical release.&nbsp; Once again, we\u2019re told that two actors are being sought to play the diver at various ages.&nbsp; I am more than willing to begin auditioning people <em>tout suite<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlyn Jenner is about to make history by posing nude on the cover of Sports Illustrated.&nbsp; Well, not completely nude \u2013 she\u2019ll be draped in an American flag.&nbsp; Believe it or not, that\u2019s not the controversial part.&nbsp; Caitlyn will also be sporting the Olympic medal Bruce won.&nbsp; This rubs people the wrong way, and it<\/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-6290","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\/6290","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=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}