{"id":15747,"date":"2017-10-05T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15747"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:40:30","slug":"threat-of-nuclear-incineration-apparently-puts-a-damper-on-olympic-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/threat-of-nuclear-incineration-apparently-puts-a-damper-on-olympic-ticket-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat Of Nuclear Incineration Apparently Puts A Damper On Olympic Ticket Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100217_0620_ThreatOfNuc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Winter Olympics are set to be held right next to the North Korean border wrote Steve Mollman:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North Korea&#8217;s recent nuclear showmanship seems to coincide with moments when their actions will receive maximum attention \u2013 during international conferences or American long weekends.<\/li>\n<li>What better way to get noticed than to engage in mischief during the winter Olympics \u2013 to be held in a border town of South Korea, just 80km from the heavily militarized line of control.<\/li>\n<li>Alarmingly it doesn&#8217;t look like North Korea will send any athletes to compete \u2013 erasing a major disincentive to threaten military strikes during the event.<\/li>\n<li>The games were awarded to South Korea back in 2014, when things on the peninsula seemed more stable.<\/li>\n<li>The tickets didn&#8217;t go on sale until recently though \u2013 and early sales have been disappointing. Only 230,000 have been sold \u2013 and organizers are starting to get creative with discounts.<\/li>\n<li>Organizers prefer not to think about athletes potentially pulling out due to safety concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1077182\/to-be-held-near-north-korea-the-upcoming-winter-olympics-are-seeing-weak-ticket-sales\/\">Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 Winter Olympics are set to be held right next to the North Korean border wrote Steve Mollman: North Korea&#8217;s recent nuclear showmanship seems to coincide with moments when their actions will receive maximum attention \u2013 during international conferences or American long weekends. What better way to get noticed than to engage in mischief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100217_0620_ThreatOfNuc1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15762,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747\/revisions\/15762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}