{"id":5110,"date":"2014-02-11T19:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2014-02-11T19:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T23:45:44","slug":"not-laughing-at-sochiproblems-some-people-have-to-live-there-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/2014\/02\/11\/not-laughing-at-sochiproblems-some-people-have-to-live-there-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Laughing at #SochiProblems: Some People Have to Live There, You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/rachelmariestone.religionnews.com\/2014\/02\/10\/laughing-sochiproblems-say-no-poverty-porn\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>from my most recent post at Religion News Service\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look, I get it: people don\u2019t go to the Olympics expecting to endure what seems to them like developing-world problems. There are serious concerns and controversies about the winter Olympics at Sochi, and it\u2019s hard not to see the ridiculous mishaps as a humorous end to so much arrogance mixed with incompetence on the part of the government. But from where I sit (literally)<em>, <\/em>most of the jokes about the conditions at Sochi just make me cringe; the Instagrammed \u2018hilarity\u2019 strikes me as so much poverty porn. Because a lot of people actually have to <em>live<\/em> under such incompetence, and not just for a few weeks. And that\u2019s not easy.<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_49\">\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/rachelmariestone.religionnews.com\/files\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-10-11.16.27.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt='\"Babushka Lives Here,\" by Anton Novoselov. Courtesy Anton Novoselov via Flickr Creative Commons.' src=\"https:\/\/rachelmariestone.religionnews.com\/files\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-10-11.16.27-359x359.png\" width=\"359\" height=\"359\"><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>\n<dl id=\"attachment_49\">\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/rachelmariestone.religionnews.com\/files\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-10-11.16.27.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt='\"Babushka Lives Here,\" by Anton Novoselov. Courtesy Anton Novoselov via Flickr Creative Commons.' src=\"https:\/\/rachelmariestone.religionnews.com\/files\/2014\/02\/Screenshot-2014-02-10-11.16.27-359x359.png\" width=\"359\" height=\"359\"><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>\u201cBabushka Lives Here,\u201d by Anton Novoselov. Russia, 2013. Photo courtesy Anton Novoselov via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45495368@N07\/8103028384\/in\/photolist-dm392W-j93Myo-a2WwdA-9Xkyyr-9Tjjhe-7neCPQ-8s8ZCh-eZvmbU-awh2Qh-4ncsNA-4ncsT5-7naDVp-ejUJVr-7naEE4-8CEJh-h5toH4-4ncsPN-4n8ogB-h5uGGg-eCWw2N-7naJ2p-ekgd1j-ekas6t-4UN3Nc-eAyGba-en1wwb-eut1Pb-enDcan-eAyHga-fouqSF-f7VCg2-f7gy4a-hu8sgv-hu77tj-jPoUpc-4A8Ah8-6y4b3h-hw9zz4-hw7S4c-hw8BUs-ftCxFD-iGXoZe-hsPfsH-eq66ou-ek1tSN-ap3r9C-eZvkYd-5wWRdG-8C9JMz-eQabmR-efqcuU\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flickr Creative Commons.<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>{<a href=\"http:\/\/rachelmariestone.religionnews.com\/2014\/02\/10\/laughing-sochiproblems-say-no-poverty-porn\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">read the whole post at Religion News Service here.<\/a>}<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from my most recent post at Religion News Service\u2026 Look, I get it: people don\u2019t go to the Olympics expecting to endure what seems to them like developing-world problems. 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