{"id":642,"date":"2011-06-09T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=642"},"modified":"2011-06-09T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:58:15","slug":"the-olympic-flame-is-not-for-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/09\/the-olympic-flame-is-not-for-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Olympic Flame is not for Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt today from a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/about-us\/the-people-delivering-the-games\/the-london-organising-committee\/\">LOGOC<\/a> that the Olympic flame is not any old recycled flame, but is brand new for each games. \u00a0Phew! \u00a0 We were reassured about this at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiltshire.gov.uk\/council\/wiltshirefamilyofpartnershipsworkingtogether\/thewiltshireassembly.htm\">Wiltshire Assembly<\/a> meeting today (we were there to discuss the county's Olympic legacy \u2013 don't scoff). \u00a0 So, all those cherished thoughts about keeping the flame burning don't apply \u2013 I must have got confused with the tomb of the unknown warrior. \u00a0 Good news on the CO2 front, of course, and no worries for the Greeks about the gas bill between games.<\/p>\n<p>Folk at the Assembly had other worries though. \u00a0The man from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitwiltshire.co.uk\/\">Visit Wiltshire<\/a> wanted to know whether the flame could be photographed at Stonehenge. \u00a0Not a chance, it seems, as when it travels round the country on its trek to Stratford will spend a lot of time on a bus \u2013 especially when it gets anywhere near neolithic sites. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Simples really: if there is no promise of crowds, then the flame won't get out of the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously LOGOC can't have been to Stonehenge on a wet summer Sunday, though, as the crowds stop the traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt today from a member of LOGOC that the Olympic flame is not any old recycled flame, but is brand new for each games. \u00a0Phew! \u00a0 We were reassured about this at the Wiltshire Assembly meeting today (we were...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}