{"id":41016,"date":"2014-02-06T20:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/06\/okay-so-some-of-the-sochi-photos-arent-real.html"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:18:21","slug":"okay-so-some-of-the-sochi-photos-arent-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/06\/okay-so-some-of-the-sochi-photos-arent-real.html","title":{"rendered":"Okay, so SOME of the Sochi photos aren't real"},"content":{"rendered":"
Or, rather, they aren't really from Sochi.<\/p>\n

Still waiting for the next outrageous scandal thing to hit. \u00a0I'm largely with John Scalzi on the whole thing:\u00a0http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2014\/02\/06\/sitting-out-sochi\/<\/a>\ufeff<\/div>\n

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8 Viral Sochi Olympics Photos That Are Total Lies<\/a>
\n Thousands of images are pouring out of Sochi in the lead-up to the Olympics. And things don’t look great. There are unfinished buildings, a lack of winter weather, and an abundance of trash. But don’t believe every image you see. Like so much of what gets passed on social media these days, a lot of them aren’t exactly what they claim.\n <\/p>\n

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Or, rather, they aren't really from Sochi. Still waiting for the next outrageous scandal thing to hit. \u00a0I'm largely with John Scalzi on the whole thing:\u00a0http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2014\/02\/06\/sitting-out-sochi\/\ufeff 8 Viral Sochi Olympics Photos That Are Total Lies Thousands of images are pouring out of Sochi in the lead-up to the Olympics. And things don’t look great. There … Continue reading “Okay, so SOME of the Sochi photos aren't real”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,67,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-sports","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/the-sochi-olympics-and-russian-law.html","url_meta":{"origin":41016,"position":0},"title":"The Sochi Olympics and Russian Law","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Aug-13 3:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A good backgrounder on what all the brouhaha is about. 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