{"id":92,"date":"2019-11-22T08:39:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2019-11-22T08:39:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:39:53","slug":"nobostonolympics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/nobostonolympics\/","title":{"rendered":"nobostonolympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Praise for No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defeat of Boston 2024 by a grassroots movement was an important moment in our city\u2019s history\u2014a \u2018successful\u2019 bid could have been disastrous for the city of Boston\u2019s future. The debate our region had over the pros and cons of hosting the Olympics holds lessons for civic leaders here in Boston as well as in cities around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Tito Jackson, Boston city councilor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>No Boston Olympics<\/em>\u00a0and its authors demonstrate that facts plus argument plus organization are potent enough to stop the Olympic juggernaut. Think what else they still might do. . . . This is real populism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014David Goldblatt, author of\u00a0<em>The Games: A Global History of the Olympics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn October 2004, Bostonians felt they had witnessed an upset for the ages when the Red Sox came from three games down to beat the Yankees and win a World Series. But the fact that common sense, a clear vision of sensible urban policy, and a small, determined, dedicated, and well-informed group of young men and women helped defeat a power-brokered boardroom plan to bring the Olympics to Boston was just as huge an upset. . . . And\u00a0<em>No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch<\/em>\u00a0shows that it was just as meaningful, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Mike Barnicle, MSNBC\u00a0<em>Morning Joe<\/em>\u00a0contributor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA comprehensive chronicling of Boston\u2019s aborted bid for the Games\u2014and a cautionary tale for other cities with five-ring fantasies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014John Powers,\u00a0<em>Boston Globe<\/em>\u00a0correspondent<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise for No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch\u00a0 &nbsp; \u201cThe defeat of Boston 2024 by a grassroots movement was an important moment in our city\u2019s history\u2014a \u2018successful\u2019 bid could have been disastrous for the city of Boston\u2019s future. The debate our region had over the pros and cons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/nobostonolympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">nobostonolympics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3944,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/azimbali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}