{"id":4757,"date":"2014-02-17T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2014-02-17T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:45:07","slug":"reporter-went-plumbing-for-tears-and-found-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4757","title":{"rendered":"Reporter went plumbing for tears and found them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This won&#8217;t take much space or verbiage to get something off my chest.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I watched skier Bode Miller&#8217;s interview last night with the NBC reporter who quizzed him about his emotions after winning the bronze medal in the super-G skiing event in Sochi, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Miller&#8217;s brother had died. The reporter pressed and pressed &#8212; and pressed some more &#8212; for some emotional reaction from the skier.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, after putting words in his mouth and prodding him to the breaking point, she got Bode to break down.<\/p>\n<p>My heart broke for Miller at that moment and wished I could have yelled into the reporter&#8217;s ear piece: <em>Back off, lady!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/video\/bode-millers-flood-emotion<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this link. I think you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This won&#8217;t take much space or verbiage to get something off my chest. My wife and I watched skier Bode Miller&#8217;s interview last night with the NBC reporter who quizzed him about his emotions after winning the bronze medal in the super-G skiing event in Sochi, Russia. Miller&#8217;s brother had died. The reporter pressed and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4757\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reporter went plumbing for tears and found them<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[698,3238,4299],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bode-miller","tag-nbc-sports","tag-sochi-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}