{"id":246,"date":"2008-08-08T23:23:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T06:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/246"},"modified":"2008-08-08T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T06:23:41","slug":"in-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/in-awe\/","title":{"rendered":"In awe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/imagedata\/0,,6187969,00.jpg\" height=\"355\" style=\"width: 226px; height: 355px\" class=\"floatleft\" \/>Anyone else watching the spectacular show China is putting on for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have found myself getting emotional on more than one occasion as I watch the artistry, beauty,\u00c2\u00a0creativity\u00c2\u00a0and awesome precision of the performances.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>15,000 individual performers, the worlds biggest LED screen on the floor, fireworks as only China can do them &#8211; and moving, moving art\/dance\/song.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Probably the most original, inspired\u00c2\u00a0and amazing opening ceremonies ever.\u00c2\u00a0 What an incredible undertaking.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44905000\/jpg\/_44905667_green_b226_getty.jpg\" height=\"170\" style=\"width: 226px; height: 170px\" class=\"floatright\" \/><br \/>\nCan you just imagine how excited and proud the Chinese people must be about this?\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me teary.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only sad part is that the athletes didn&#8217;t get to see it : (\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did you have a favorite performance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone else watching the spectacular show China is putting on for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics?\u00c2\u00a0 I have found myself getting emotional on more than one occasion as I watch the artistry, beauty,\u00c2\u00a0creativity\u00c2\u00a0and awesome precision of the performances.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 15,000 individual performers, the worlds biggest LED screen on the floor, fireworks as only China can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/in-awe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In awe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-entertainment","category-reviewsrecommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}