{"id":26553,"date":"2007-06-05T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/06\/05\/its-official-the-logo-for-the-london-2012-olympic-games-is-hideously-ugly\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T10:00:01","slug":"its-official-the-logo-for-the-london-2012-olympic-games-is-hideously-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070605-01\/?p=26553","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s official: The logo for the London 2012 Olympic Games is hideously ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Yesterday, the organizers of the London 2012 Olympic Games unveiled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/\"> their official logo<\/a>, and it&#8217;s officially hideous. They paid &pound;400,000 for <i>that<\/i>? As one of my friends put it, it looks like a bunch of old people tried to imagine something that would appeal to young people. Unfortunately, they forgot that today&#8217;s young people don&#8217;t live in the 1980&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the organizers of the London 2012 Olympic Games unveiled their official logo, and it&#8217;s officially hideous. They paid &pound;400,000 for that? As one of my friends put it, it looks like a bunch of old people tried to imagine something that would appeal to young people. Unfortunately, they forgot that today&#8217;s young people don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Yesterday, the organizers of the London 2012 Olympic Games unveiled their official logo, and it&#8217;s officially hideous. They paid &pound;400,000 for that? As one of my friends put it, it looks like a bunch of old people tried to imagine something that would appeal to young people. Unfortunately, they forgot that today&#8217;s young people don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}