{"id":5228,"date":"2016-08-08T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/08\/bored-olympics-lifeguard-is-the-spirit-animal-for-those-bored-at-work\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T20:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:26:16","slug":"bored-olympics-lifeguard-is-the-spirit-animal-for-those-bored-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/08\/bored-olympics-lifeguard-is-the-spirit-animal-for-those-bored-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored Olympics lifeguard is the spirit animal for those bored at work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f170240%2f5375de7585154b649649def2ea7407f4\"<\/p>\n

\"Feed-tw\"<\/a>\"Feed-fb\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Next time you feel bored at work, think about the Olympics<\/a> lifeguards.<\/p>\n

This photo of one, ennui-stricken lifeguard in Rio, which came from a New York Times<\/em><\/a> article about the futility of lifeguards at the Olympics, has been competently paddling around Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

SEE ALSO: NBC announcer criticized for saying swimmer’s husband ‘responsible’ for gold medal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The boredom written on his face is something we’ve all felt in our lifetime. After all, when you’re dedicated to saving lives of swimmers in a room full of professional<\/em> swimmers, you can’t help but feel your role is a little pointless.<\/p>\n

We hope he’s being paid good money for it. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Sports<\/a>, Watercooler<\/a>, Conversations<\/a>, Pics<\/a>, and Funny<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next time you feel bored at work, think about the Olympics lifeguards. This photo of one, ennui-stricken lifeguard in Rio, which came from a New York Times article about the futility of lifeguards at the Olympics, has been competently paddling … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[761,1033,754,740,735],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-conversations","tag-funny","tag-pics","tag-sports","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}