{"id":7026,"date":"2004-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/7026-a-story-from-jsu-garcia-at-the-olympics"},"modified":"2004-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T07:00:00","slug":"a-story-from-jsu-garcia-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/7026-a-story-from-jsu-garcia-at-the-olympics","title":{"rendered":"A Story from Jsu Garcia at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/4398pic561.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em\" alt=\"Article image\">I&#8217;m reporting from Athens, Greece, the home of the Olympics and Zeus. It has been beautiful and very nostalgic in a lot of ways. J-R and John Morton, with staff and friends, spend time on buses and trains to get to the venues. A lot of ticket trading and late nights watching these athletes get their gold medals. <\/p>\n<p>I experienced something profound today while walking with J-R and the guys to get on a bus to ride to the track and field event. A man bumped into me and then bounced off me to J-R. Then he kept walking with what looked like a stick. When I looked closer I saw that it was a blind man trying to find his way to the Traveler. Wow.  I had a realization &#8212; how would I feel to run into the Traveler, blind?  What are the odds that, if I was this blind man, I would run into my Traveler in the streets at that corner at that second, this lifetime? Did he see J-R before or did he see J-R after he bumped into him? I don&#8217;t know what that man felt, but I still feel like I&#8217;m a blind man, bumping into J-R and trying to see.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Jsu\/Zeus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reporting from Athens, Greece, the home of the Olympics and Zeus. It has been beautiful and very nostalgic in a lot of ways. J-R and John Morton, with staff and friends, spend time on buses and trains to get to the venues. A lot of ticket trading and late nights watching these athletes get their gold medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":86978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndh-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}