{"id":98881158,"date":"2011-04-11T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/tokyo-to-make-bid-to-host-olympics-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:07:33","slug":"tokyo-to-make-bid-to-host-olympics-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/tokyo-to-make-bid-to-host-olympics-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo to Make Bid to Host Olympics in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo will make a bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, according to the city\u2019s governor Shintaro Ishihara.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Japan continues to struggle with recovery efforts following a devastating earthquake and tsunami that stunned the nation last month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The city wants to use the bid as a catalyst for recovery. \u201cIf we will work hard with hopes for nine years ahead, it will be a big catalyst for our country\u2019s reconstruction and revival,\u201d said Ishihara.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo lost out on a bid to host the 2016 games back in 2009. Those games will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cities can submit their names for consideration for the 2020 Games until September 1, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/news\/article\/tokyo-to-bid-for-2020-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BTN <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmorgan\/71696979\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Peter Morgan <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo will make a bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, according to the city\u2019s governor Shintaro Ishihara. &nbsp; The announcement comes as Japan continues to struggle with recovery efforts following a devastating earthquake and tsunami that stunned the nation last month. &nbsp; The city wants to use the bid as a catalyst for recovery. [&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-98881158","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\/98881158","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=98881158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898240,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881158\/revisions\/98898240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}