{"id":206,"date":"2008-06-01T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kilcher04.net\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-06-01T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T13:56:07","slug":"birdy-in-2008-us-olympic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Birdy in 2008 US Olympic Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sue_athens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"sue_athens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sue_athens-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, so Birdy&#8217;s expected to be the starting point guard of this year&#8217;s squad. The first 9 slots, as announced, are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; C Lisa Leslie (L.A. SpOrks) &#8212; Ugh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; G Katie Smith (Detroit Shock)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; G Sue Bird (Seattle Storm)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; G\/F Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; F Tina Thompson (Houston Comets)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; G Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; C Sylvia Fowles (Chicago Sky)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; F Candace Parker (L.A. Sparks)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; G Cappie Pondexter (Phoenix Mercury)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">USA has won 5 of 6 gold medals, the latest was Athens. But it shouldn&#8217;t be guarantee enough because Australia&#8217;s Opals are the fiercest ever &#8212; led by Captain Lauren Jackson. Russia (with Becky Hammon) can also be a huge problem, I remember them beating USA in the semis during the last World Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so Birdy&#8217;s expected to be the starting point guard of this year&#8217;s squad. The first 9 slots, as announced, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=206\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}