{"id":94691826,"date":"2011-03-29T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/london-2012-olympics-olympic-stadium-construction-completed-ahead-of-schedule\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:38:00","slug":"london-2012-olympics-olympic-stadium-construction-completed-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/london-2012-olympics-olympic-stadium-construction-completed-ahead-of-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"London 2012 Olympics: Olympic Stadium Construction Completed Ahead of Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/10\/olympicpark.jpg\" alt=\"London 2012 Olympics: Olympic Stadium Constructions Completed Ahead of Schedule, Flickr: Alexander Kachkaev\" title=\"London 2012 Olympics: Olympic Stadium Constructions Completed Ahead of Schedule, Flickr: Alexander Kachkaev\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<strong>London&#39;s Olympic Stadium construction is completed after 1,000 days<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nLondon broke the world record today for constructing an Olympic Stadium as officials announced home to the 2012 games is completed ahead of time and under budget.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs the last piece of the turf was draped onto the field, Olympic officials celebrated the great news. It took London workers only 1,000 days to build the 80,000-seat Stratford stadium.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, the final bill for the project is estimated to be about &pound;486 million ($776 million USD), which is just under budget by about &pound;10 million ($15 million USD). The 2012 Summer Olympics kick off July 27 of next year from London.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCommenting to the press, London Mayor Boris Johnson stated, &quot;The real joy of being so far ahead is that, unlike any other host city,<br \/>\nwe are already able to focus on securing the legacy we are so<br \/>\ndetermined to deliver from the Games.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kachkaev\/6170690163\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Kachkaev<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#39;s Olympic Stadium construction is completed after 1,000 days &nbsp; London broke the world record today for constructing an Olympic Stadium as officials announced home to the 2012 games is completed ahead of time and under budget. &nbsp; As the last piece of the turf was draped onto the field, Olympic officials celebrated the great [&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-94691826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691826","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=94691826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}