{"id":3651,"date":"2026-02-15T23:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:21:56","slug":"the-olympic-curse-something-rotten-in-the-state-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3651","title":{"rendered":"The Olympic Curse: Something Rotten in the State of  &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-200569251-001-612x612-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-200569251-001-612x612-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3652\" style=\"width:330px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-200569251-001-612x612-1.jpg 612w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-200569251-001-612x612-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.\u00a0\u00a0Which is the self-evident reason why American Olympians keep blowing their races.\u00a0\u00a0The magnificent gods of snow and ice, Americans about to be anointed in their draped flag, have gotten tangled in their backflips.\u00a0\u00a0Inversion seems to be the rule.\u00a0\u00a0First it\u2019s Elsinore, then it\u2019s its flip of a coin.\u00a0\u00a0Apparently rottenness, when it is truly rotten, doesn\u2019t understand the concept of borders.\u00a0\u00a0A curse will spread across innocents of a nation.\u00a0\u00a0Unexpectedly the athlete\u2019s edge will be off, the calibration of body and mind will be unlaced by silky unseen hands. Poor athletes, who have sacrificed for years, get caught in the crosshairs of the sometimes arbitrary but knowing judges, more godly than they.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.\u00a0\u00a0Which is the self-evident reason why American Olympians keep blowing their races.\u00a0\u00a0The magnificent gods of snow and ice, Americans about to be anointed in their draped flag, have gotten tangled in their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1723,519,1725],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-olympics-2026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-WT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}