{"id":7971,"date":"2016-08-21T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/21\/nbc-makes-it-easier-for-the-blind-to-join-in-the-rio-games\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T21:42:00","slug":"nbc-makes-it-easier-for-the-blind-to-join-in-the-rio-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/nbc-makes-it-easier-for-the-blind-to-join-in-the-rio-games\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Makes It Easier For The Blind To Join In The Rio Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/21\/490852966\/nbc-makes-it-easier-for-the-blind-to-join-in-the-rio-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>The network is offering descriptive narration of the Olympics for blind TV consumers for the first time during the Rio Games. Jim Van Horne, one of the narrators, says it can be tough work.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/21\/490852966\/nbc-makes-it-easier-for-the-blind-to-join-in-the-rio-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NBC Makes It Easier For The Blind To Join In The Rio Games\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/21\/490852966\/nbc-makes-it-easier-for-the-blind-to-join-in-the-rio-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The network is offering descriptive narration of the Olympics for blind TV consumers for the first time during the Rio Games. Jim Van Horne, one of the narrators, says it can be tough work.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}