{"id":11159,"date":"2021-06-08T00:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=11159"},"modified":"2021-06-08T00:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:39:54","slug":"thousands-of-tokyo-olympics-volunteers-quit-nhk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=11159","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Tokyo Olympics volunteers quit &#8211; NHK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7WQ3ANFFOBOV5PXGD7FTQTQSHQ-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"211\" \/>Around 10,000 of the 80,000 volunteers who signed up to help at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have quit, broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday, citing organisers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/thousands-tokyo-olympics-volunteers-quit-nhk-2021-06-02\/\">Thousands of Tokyo Olympics volunteers quit &#8211; NHK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2021\/06\/olympics-tokyo-covid-vaccination-international-committee.html\">Will the Olympics Really Happen?<\/a>\u00a0 Some interesting comments on the Olympics in general.\u00a0 Seems like it&#8217;s going ahead, with little popular support, and way too little vaccination levels in Japan, and no requirement for athletes to be vaccinated.\u00a0 Could be the 5th wave for Japan?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"hzImg\" style=\"border: 4px solid #ffffff; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; margin: 4px; position: absolute; z-index: 2147483647; border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 3px; visibility: visible; opacity: 1; top: 5px; left: 69px; cursor: pointer; pointer-events: none; width: auto; height: auto; background-color: #ffffff; display: none;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"hzImg\" style=\"border: 4px solid #ffffff; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; margin: 4px; position: absolute; z-index: 2147483647; border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 3px; visibility: visible; opacity: 1; top: 5px; left: 85px; cursor: pointer; pointer-events: none; width: auto; height: auto; background-color: #ffffff; display: none;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 10,000 of the 80,000 volunteers who signed up to help at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,42,618],"class_list":["post-11159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-japan","tag-olympics","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}