{"id":3713,"date":"2008-08-09T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T09:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/08\/china-eight-eight-oh-eight\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:51","slug":"china-eight-eight-oh-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/08\/china-eight-eight-oh-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"China eight eight oh eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loved the fireworks.<br \/>\nLoved history on and through  paper.<br \/>\nLoved the moving movable type.<br \/>\nLoved the delighted athletes of the world.<br \/>\nLoathed the goose-stepping soldiers.<br \/>\nLoathed the mass synchronised movements.<br \/>\nLoathed the rhythmic grunts.<br \/>\nBit worried about the cute young people in ethnic minority dress.<br \/>\nHope that unity doesn&#8217;t mean homogeneity.<br \/>\nHope that harmony comes from welcoming difference.<br \/>\nWish Crouching Tiger Roy and Hidden Dragon H.G.  were doing the TV commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loved the fireworks. Loved history on and through paper. Loved the moving movable type. Loved the delighted athletes of the world. Loathed the goose-stepping soldiers. Loathed the mass synchronised movements. Loathed the rhythmic grunts. Bit worried about the cute young people in ethnic minority dress. Hope that unity doesn&#8217;t mean homogeneity. Hope that harmony comes &#8230; <a title=\"China eight eight oh eight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/08\/china-eight-eight-oh-eight\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about China eight eight oh eight\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}