{"id":94608807,"date":"2011-07-13T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/list-of-candidate-cities-for-2020-olympics-takes-shape\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:30:00","slug":"list-of-candidate-cities-for-2020-olympics-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/list-of-candidate-cities-for-2020-olympics-takes-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Candidate Cities for 2020 Olympics Takes Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Istanbul says it is ready to host the 2020 Summer Olympics <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt didn&rsquo;t take long for the international community to move on from the news that Pyeongchang, South Korea will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday Istanbul, Turkey and Madrid, Spain made public their intentions to place bids on hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe vying cities join Rome, Italy which declared its candidacy earlier this year. It has been speculated that Tokyo, Japan will announce its bid as early as next week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deadline for cities to bid on the 2020 Games is July 29. An official list of candidate cities will be released by the International Olympic Committee on September 1 and the host city will be announced in 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/wire?section=oly&amp;id=6764800\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Istanbul says it is ready to host the 2020 Summer Olympics &nbsp; It didn&rsquo;t take long for the international community to move on from the news that Pyeongchang, South Korea will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. &nbsp; Today Istanbul, Turkey and Madrid, Spain made public their intentions to place bids on hosting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}