{"id":30673,"date":"2006-06-30T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/06\/30\/congratulations-montral-on-finally-paying-for-the-1976-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2006-06-30T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T10:00:19","slug":"congratulations-montral-on-finally-paying-for-the-1976-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060630-19\/?p=30673","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Montr&#233;al, on finally paying for the 1976 Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Assuming everything went according to plan, Montr&eacute;al today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2005\/10\/08\/Montreal_stadium20051008.html\"> made the final payment<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/canada.archiseek.com\/quebec\/montreal\/olympic_stadium.html\"> Olympic Stadium<\/a> (or Le Stade Olympique), originally built for the 1976 Olympic Games, and nicknamed &#8220;The Big O&#8221; (or &#8220;The Big Owe&#8221;, if you prefer). Before you snicker, at least you have to give them credit for keeping the stadium until it was paid off. The Seattle Kingdome opened just a few months before Montr&eacute;al&#8217;s Olympic Stadium, but we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/sports\/1283221.html\"> demolished it<\/a> in 2000 even though we will still be paying for it until 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming everything went according to plan, Montr&eacute;al today made the final payment on Olympic Stadium (or Le Stade Olympique), originally built for the 1976 Olympic Games, and nicknamed &#8220;The Big O&#8221; (or &#8220;The Big Owe&#8221;, if you prefer). Before you snicker, at least you have to give them credit for keeping the stadium until it [&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-30673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Assuming everything went according to plan, Montr&eacute;al today made the final payment on Olympic Stadium (or Le Stade Olympique), originally built for the 1976 Olympic Games, and nicknamed &#8220;The Big O&#8221; (or &#8220;The Big Owe&#8221;, if you prefer). Before you snicker, at least you have to give them credit for keeping the stadium until it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30673","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=30673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30673\/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=30673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}