{"id":14311,"date":"2016-08-03T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=14311"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:28:46","slug":"well-said-the-intersection-of-politics-and-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=14311","title":{"rendered":"Well Said: The intersection of politics and the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14312\" src=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/wellsaidspotlight.jpg\" alt=\"wellsaidspotlight\" width=\"440\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/08\/wellsaidspotlight.jpg 440w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/08\/wellsaidspotlight-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/>The Olympic Games may have been founded to serve as a political-free zone to foster peace, but it hasn\u2019t always worked out that way. As the world turns its attention to for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, we\u2019re talking about the intersection of politics and the Olympics with UNC College of Arts and Sciences\u2019 history lecturer Andrew Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>Join us every other Wednesday for the University\u2019s new podcast as we talk with Carolina\u2019s newsmakers and experts. Each episode, students, faculty, staff and alumni will discuss what\u2019s going on in classrooms, labs and around campus, and how it pertains to the local, national and international headlines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Well Said: The intersection of politics and the Olympics by Well Said\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F276632505&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Games may have been founded to serve as a political-free zone to foster peace, but it hasn\u2019t always worked out that way. As the world turns its attention to for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, UNC&#8217;s &#8220;Well Said&#8221; podcast features a conversation with historian Andrew Matthews about the intersection of politics and the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-programs","category-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47802,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14311\/revisions\/47802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}