{"id":2081,"date":"2007-02-15T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T18:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/chinese-new-year\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T18:53:00","slug":"chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Last weekend, Merri and I attended the dress rehearsal for this weekend&#8217;s celebration of Chinese New Year at the Albuquerque Chinese Cultural Center (Sunday; 4705, the Year of the Pig). We sat on the ground in the parking lot and watched performers stream out of the center&#8217;s entrance. There will be martial arts, Tai Chi, dance, fights with various weapons, lions and a dragon, plus innumerable costume changes. If, you are &#8220;tired of winter&#8217;s drab colors,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/compugoddess\/\">as a friend of mine recently put it<\/a>, you&#8217;ll be blown away by the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my photos on flickr:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/sets\/72157594537596955\/detail\/\">Chinese New Year in Albuquerque, NM &#8211; a photoset on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Flickr Badge --><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;}\n#flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;}\n#flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;}\n.flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;}\n.flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;}\n#flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;}\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover,\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link,\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active,\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;}\n#flickr_badge_wrapper {background-color:#ffffff;border: solid 1px #000000}\n#flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;}\n<\/style>\n<table id=\"flickr_badge_uber_wrapper\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\" id=\"flickr_www\">www.<strong style=\"color:#3993ff\">flick<span style=\"color:#ff1c92\">r<\/span><\/strong>.com<\/a><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" border=\"0\" id=\"flickr_badge_wrapper\">\n<tr>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/badge_code_v2.gne?count=5&#038;display=latest&#038;size=t&#038;layout=h&#038;source=user_set&#038;user=10528393%40N00&#038;set=72157594537596955&#038;context=in%2Fset-72157594537596955%2F\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Flickr Badge --><\/p>\n<p>If you are going on Sunday (2\/18), be aware that the Center has small parking lot which serves as the stage. Parking in the area is a problem. Ride your bike or walk. peace, <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS: I take this opportunity to note I turned 47 in 4700 and in 4747 I will be 94 (47+47).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, Merri and I attended the dress rehearsal for this weekend&#8217;s celebration of Chinese New Year at the Albuquerque Chinese Cultural Center (Sunday; 4705, the Year of the Pig). We sat on the ground in the parking lot and watched performers stream out of the center&#8217;s entrance. There will be martial arts, Tai Chi, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/chinese-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese New Year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco","category-photos","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}