{"id":8478,"date":"2010-02-17T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/getting_ready_to_head_to_the_olympics.html"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:23:55","slug":"getting-ready-to-head-to-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/getting-ready-to-head-to-the-olympics.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready to Head to the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/vancouver-sign.jpg\" alt=\"vancouver-sign.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Slowly but surely I am packing and generally getting ready to fly to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver where I will not only see some games such as curling and hockey but I may even take in concert if there is time. The Bare Naked Ladies are playing. I will be with Avaya during my time there and I will be learning about how their equipment powers the games and the 911 call center.<\/p>\n<p>To most, sports is a much more passionate topic than technology -I am glad to see the two intersect and expect me to be reporting on the intersection over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Besides this blog you can follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rtehrani\">Twitter<\/a> &#8211; the link can also be found to the right or just remember <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rtehrani\">twitter.com\/rtehrani<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Slowly but surely I am packing and generally getting ready to fly to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver where I will not only see some games such as curling and hockey but I may even take in concert if there is time. The Bare Naked Ladies are playing. I will be with Avaya during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,199,118,177,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}