{"id":71770,"date":"2015-07-27T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71770"},"modified":"2015-07-27T18:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:07:57","slug":"why-didnt-boston-bid-for-the-2024-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71770","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t Boston Bid For The 2024 Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/boston-says-oh-never-mind-regarding-its-2024-olympic-bid\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Boston did not have a facility problem as much as it has a logistics problem. Under ideal conditions, getting around eastern Mass is unpleasant. Holding big events like a convention can make daily life unbearable. An Olympics would shut down the state for a month.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the fact the political class would probably all end up in Federal prison by the time it was over. Mass can tolerate the grubby corruption it has because the stakes are small. Something like the Big Dig or an Olympics means a dozen years of FBI investigations.<\/p>\n<p>* As a resident of the Boston metro area, I am so happy we dodged this bullet. There\u2019s no way we could host it with our 3rd world infrastructure and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * Boston did not have a facility problem as much as it has a logistics problem. Under ideal conditions, getting around eastern Mass is unpleasant. 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