{"id":2536,"date":"2026-04-29T02:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/?post_type=exhibit&#038;p=2536"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:50:31","slug":"1948-london","status":"publish","type":"exhibit","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/exhibits\/song-chin-foh\/return-to-homeland\/to-the-olympics\/1948-london\/","title":{"rendered":"1948 London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1948 London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the London Olympics, Song\u2019s role centered on basketball coaching and team organization. This later Olympic work connects his Republican-era experience to his postwar and post-1949 legacy in basketball, refereeing, and sports administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"589\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/04\/Professor-Song-Junfu-was-appointed-as-basketball-coach-for-the-14th-Olympic-Games.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/04\/Professor-Song-Junfu-was-appointed-as-basketball-coach-for-the-14th-Olympic-Games.jpg 830w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/04\/Professor-Song-Junfu-was-appointed-as-basketball-coach-for-the-14th-Olympic-Games-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/04\/Professor-Song-Junfu-was-appointed-as-basketball-coach-for-the-14th-Olympic-Games-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><sub>Song was appointed as basketball coach for the 1948 Olympic Games. Shandong University Archive.<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1948 London At the London Olympics, Song\u2019s role centered on basketball coaching and team organization. This later Olympic work connects his Republican-era experience to his postwar and post-1949 legacy in basketball, refereeing, and sports administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":1977,"menu_order":4,"template":"","institution":[],"place":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibit"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/2536\/revisions\/2735"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}