{"id":178,"date":"2008-08-10T20:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T01:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=178"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:49:02","slug":"beijing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/beijing-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Begins:"},"content":{"rendered":"

China’s opening ceremonies<\/a> were spectacular!!! I thought it impossible to outdo the magnificent show put on in Athens–but w\/ unlimited money & great ability the Chinese did it. Director Zhang Yimou: What a job!!! Might and the collective spirit were emphasized. There were no individual performances. The sheer manpower & creativity was breathtaking–& scary. Now, 1.3 billion strong w\/ the world’s 3rd largest economy—like the roots of this country, it’s built on slave labor. <\/p>\n

\"Esther<\/a><\/div>\n

During many trips I made to China (all work oriented) I observed unusual things:<\/p>\n

1.) The govt. keeps things shut tight.<\/a> I saw a dozen drug dealers shot by a firing squad on the news there. I’m shocked someone stabbed the American tourists. It doesn’t surprise me that the perp took his own life afterward.<\/p>\n

2.) I saw a brochure for a golf course in the wealthy Shenzhen industrial zone, directly across the harbor from Hong Kong. You often see HK businessmen taking their clubs on the ferry to the mainland for a round. The club’s clientele must have been having trouble w\/ the difficult game: the brochure told perspective members that in golf a high score is the best score!!!<\/i><\/p>\n

The 1st events I saw were swimming. The US girl swimmers were camera-ready:wearing waterproof makeup & stud earrings! It seemed so strange & artificial, like Esther Williams<\/a> at MGM!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China’s opening ceremonies were spectacular!!! I thought it impossible to outdo the magnificent show put on in Athens–but w\/ unlimited money & great ability the Chinese did it. Director Zhang Yimou: What a job!!! Might and the collective spirit were emphasized. There were no individual performances. The sheer manpower & creativity was breathtaking–& scary. Now, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12582,1026,788,12580,12581],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-money","tag-olympics","tag-zhang-yimou","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}