{"id":28400,"date":"2012-06-21T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/usoc-anti-knitter-brouhaha-comes-unraveled.html"},"modified":"2012-06-21T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:27:49","slug":"usoc-anti-knitter-brouhaha-comes-unraveled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/usoc-anti-knitter-brouhaha-comes-unraveled.html","title":{"rendered":"USOC anti-knitter brouhaha comes unraveled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have apologized and appear to have backed off from their \u00a0cease-and-desist. \u00a0(I don&#39;t see anything explicitly allowing the &quot;Ravelympics&quot; by name, but at least they&#39;re not saying &quot;Oh, you zany knitters, you are disrespecting the athletes&quot; any more.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102685887534378007961\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"102685887534378007961\">Amanda Helstrom<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2012%2F06%2F21%2Fyarn07.jpg%3Ft%3D1340301291%26s%3D12' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/m.npr.org\/news\/front\/155508908?page=1'>NPR.org \u00bb After Knitters Get In A Twist, USOC Apologizes For &#39;Cease And Desist&#39; Letter<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter Knitters Get In A Twist, USOC Apologizes For &#39;Cease And Desist&#39; Letter. AP. Note to the USOC: Those are balls of yarn, not puts. Published: June 21, 2012. by Mark Memmott. It wouldn&#39;t seem to be&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/PXqVxPuJjSC' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have apologized and appear to have backed off from their \u00a0cease-and-desist. \u00a0(I don&#39;t see anything explicitly allowing the &quot;Ravelympics&quot; by name, but at least they&#39;re not saying &quot;Oh, you zany knitters, you are disrespecting the athletes&quot; any more.)\u00a0 (h\/t +Amanda Helstrom) Embedded Link NPR.org \u00bb After Knitters Get In A Twist, USOC Apologizes For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/usoc-anti-knitter-brouhaha-comes-unraveled.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USOC anti-knitter brouhaha comes unraveled&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}