{"id":3960,"date":"2008-08-22T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T19:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2008-08-22T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T19:46:14","slug":"olympian-objects-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Objects Of Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/sport\/olympics\/article4582421.ece\">From the Times of London<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The chaps who win gold medals &#8211; even those as geeky as Michael Phelps &#8211; are the principal objects of desire for many female athletes. There is something about sporting success that makes a certain type of woman go crazy &#8211; smiling, flirting and sometimes even grabbing at the chaps who have done the business in the pool or on the track. An Olympic gold medal is not merely a route to fame and fortune; it is also a surefire ticket to writhe.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; and this is the thing &#8211; success does not work both ways. Gold-medal winning female athletes are not looked upon by male athletes with any more desire than those who flunked out in the first round. It is sometimes even considered a defect, as if there is something downright unfeminine about all that striving, fist pumping and incontinent sweating. Sport, in this respect, is a reflection of wider society, where male success is a universal desirable whereas female success is sexually ambiguous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Times of London: The chaps who win gold medals &#8211; even those as geeky as Michael Phelps &#8211; are the principal objects of desire for many female athletes. There is something about sporting success that makes a certain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11623,11624,11223,11621,11622,11625],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex","tag-fame-and-fortune","tag-gold-medals","tag-michael-phelps","tag-objects-of-desire","tag-olympic-gold-medal","tag-principal-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}