{"id":201,"date":"2012-02-28T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2012-02-28T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:03:31","slug":"f-is-for-fencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"F is for Fencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukranian <strong>f<\/strong>encer Boris Onischenko was disqualified from the Montreal Olympics in 1976 for cheating. \u00a0The tip of the sword (or epee) of each competitor is fitted with a switch which allows judges to know when the opponent has been hit. \u00a0Boris fitted his epee with a hand operated trigger which allowed him to score points without even touching his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose Boris could be described as a &#8216;sword&#8217; loser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fencingrev02g.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108\" title=\"Olympic Fencing by Zack McLaughlin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fencingrev02g.png\" alt=\"Olympic Fencing\" width=\"495\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fencingrev02g.png 495w, http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fencingrev02g-300x181.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukranian fencer Boris Onischenko was disqualified from the Montreal Olympics in 1976 for cheating. \u00a0The tip of the sword (or epee) of each competitor is fitted with a switch which allows judges to know when the opponent has been hit. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}