Author: Jacob Martella
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Nine: Row, row, row your boat (Part I)
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Nine: Row, row, row your boat (Part I)Always remember the sunscreen, especially if you’re covering rowing. Oh, and write the story first before trying to get back to the Olympic Park. Lessons learned on the first day of the Olympics.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Eight: The fun begins
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Eight: The fun beginsIt’s finally here. After much anticipation, the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics went on as planned Friday night. Unfortunately we weren’t there, but we had the next best thing.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Seven: Sitting in on press conferences
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Seven: Sitting in on press conferencesThursday was the chill day we all needed. But sitting in on the IOC and USA Basketball press conference certainly made it interesting.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Six: Let’s get to work
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Six: Let’s get to workThe start of the women’s soccer tournament on Wednesday marked the unofficial start of the Olympics and the unofficial start of our work with Rio2016.com.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Five: Up in the clouds
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Five: Up in the cloudsNothing happens fast around Rio. But we got to see the Christ the Redeemer statue, so there’s that at least.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Four: A change of plans
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Four: A change of plansWell, we weren’t able to go to the Christ the Redeemer statue today, but we were still able to do a little bit more exploring.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Three: The Olympic Park is massive
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Three: The Olympic Park is massiveOur second day in Rio saw us check out the media center and the massive Olympic Village. Only a few more days before it takes center stage for the world.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day Two: Rio’s very far from perfect but it won’t be the complete disaster predicted
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day Two: Rio’s very far from perfect but it won’t be the complete disaster predictedThe rest of the first day in Rio resulted in credentials, a walk along a beach and a Brazilian steakhouse dinner. Also, here are some of my observations of Rio after the first day in the city.
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Rio Olympics Blog — Day One: The long adventure begins
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Continue Reading: Rio Olympics Blog — Day One: The long adventure beginsWell, 24 hours of madness have resulted in us finding ourselves in Rio de Janeiro with an apartment right down the road from the Olympic Park. It’s all starting to set in now.
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Trying to wrap my head around WP REST API and JavaScript
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Continue Reading: Trying to wrap my head around WP REST API and JavaScriptI set out this week to learn more about the WP REST API and JavaScript. What I learned is that I still have a ton to learn in those departments.