{"id":43693489,"date":"2011-07-06T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/pyeongchang-south-korea-wins-bid-for-2018-winter-olympics\/"},"modified":"2011-07-06T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:16:00","slug":"pyeongchang-south-korea-wins-bid-for-2018-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/pyeongchang-south-korea-wins-bid-for-2018-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyeongchang, South Korea Wins Bid for 2018 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPyeongchang, South Korea has been awarded the 2018 Winter Olympic Games following a vote today from the International Olympic Committee in Durban, South Africa.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPyeongchang beat out Annecy, France and Munich, Germany for the games after missing out on previous bids for to host the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPyeongchang, located in the Alpensia Mountains east of Seoul, had been considered the favorite heading into today&rsquo;s vote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/news\/article\/pyeongchang-announced-as-host-of-2018-winter-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">BTN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyeongchang, South Korea has been awarded the 2018 Winter Olympic Games following a vote today from the International Olympic Committee in Durban, South Africa. &nbsp; Pyeongchang beat out Annecy, France and Munich, Germany for the games after missing out on previous bids for to host the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. &nbsp; Pyeongchang, located in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43693489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43693489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43693489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43693489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43693489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}