{"id":216,"date":"2009-09-13T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-04-01T18:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:46:32","slug":"olympic-games-souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/09\/13\/olympic-games-souvenirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Games souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-222\" title=\"07bMAR18-cP1010506 MarathSydHbrBr1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/07bMAR18-cP1010506-MarathSydHbrBr12-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"07bMAR18-cP1010506 MarathSydHbrBr1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/07bMAR18-cP1010506-MarathSydHbrBr12-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/07bMAR18-cP1010506-MarathSydHbrBr12.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The blue ribbon event of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was the marathon, whose 42 km route wound past Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most recognizable icons and through some of its most telegenic suburbs. A few sections of the blue marathon line have been left in place around Sydney, but only where they do not\u00c2\u00a0constitute a traffic hazard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The line was removed from Sydney Harbour Bridge fairly soon after the event, but there are still remnants in several places. Traces of blue are visible on a lane line towards the southern (tollgate) end and also on a large number 3 underneath the arch. I took these photographs early in the morning on 18 March 2007, when people were allowed to walk over the Bridge to celebrate its 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-223\" title=\"07bMAR18-cP1010459 MarathSydHbrBr2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/07bMAR18-cP1010459-MarathSydHbrBr21-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"07bMAR18-cP1010459 MarathSydHbrBr2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/07bMAR18-cP1010459-MarathSydHbrBr21-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/07bMAR18-cP1010459-MarathSydHbrBr21.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blue ribbon event of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was the marathon, whose 42 km route wound past Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most recognizable icons and through some of its most telegenic suburbs. A few sections of the blue marathon line have been left in place around Sydney, but only where they do not\u00c2\u00a0constitute a traffic hazard. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/09\/13\/olympic-games-souvenirs\/#more-216\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,86,79],"tags":[3,66,65,63,7],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city","category-events","category-signs-and-symbols","tag-graffiti","tag-marathon","tag-olympics","tag-sport","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}