{"id":5564,"date":"2015-07-31T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2015-07-31T19:54:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:54:25","slug":"beijing-chosen-as-host-city-for-2022-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/beijing-chosen-as-host-city-for-2022-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing chosen as host city for 2022 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Olympic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5565\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Olympic.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic\" width=\"302\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Olympic.jpg 302w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Olympic-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a>Beijing was chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday as the host of the 2022 winter Olympics, becoming the first city to be awarded both summer and winter Games.<br \/>\nThe Chinese capital won a secret ballot of IOC members. The only other candidate city was Almaty, Kazakhstan.<br \/>\nBeijing hosted the summer Olympics in 2008.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/beijing-chosen-as-host-city-for-2022-winter-olympics\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing was chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday as the host of the 2022 winter Olympics, becoming the first city to be awarded both summer and winter Games. The Chinese capital won a secret ballot of IOC members. The only other candidate city was Almaty, Kazakhstan. Beijing hosted the summer Olympics in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}