{"id":1238,"date":"2007-12-05T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T14:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/12\/05\/beijing-civilized-workers-cheering-squad\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T14:45:20","slug":"beijing-civilized-workers-cheering-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Civilized Workers Cheering Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">No need to scratch your head.\u00a0 This is one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/12\/05\/olympic.cheering.ap\/index.html\">public-education programs<\/a> gearing up to the coming out party next Aug in Beijing .. with four major points: <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #003366; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\"><strong>don&#8217;t insult former wartime enemy Japan<\/strong><\/span>; don&#8217;t swear; respect the referee; and don&#8217;t snap indiscriminate photos.\u00a0 .. think I&#8217;ll past the last one?\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0&#8220;Many Chinese don&#8217;t understand why they can&#8217;t take photos when athletes are about to serve or hit the ball; they think it&#8217;s the best moment to take the shot,&#8221;\u00a0.. :))<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">&#8220;We are not going to shout profanities in front of foreigners because the Olympics is a show for foreigners,&#8221; Gosh, can&#8217;t we do something good, not even dreaming great, just for ourselves? &#8230; But if the Olympics can shake up\u00a0their manner, so be it.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be great!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Here is a cute one:\u00a0 China&#8217;s Olympic history, which dates from 1894 when founder Pierre de Coubertin sent an invitation to the Qing Dynasty to compete. Unfamiliar with the sports, the government reportedly didn&#8217;t reply.\u00a0 China didn&#8217;t win a gold medal till 1984<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">, calling 1984 &#8220;the year the humiliation ended,&#8221;\u00a0 This time, China is expected to challenge the United States for the most gold medals.\u00a0 &#8230;hmmmmmm &#8230; I&#8217;ll cover my eyes &#8230; too nervous and torn &#8230; Hey, how about China share the gold medals with the US, and the rest of the world can fight over\u00a0whatever left?\u00a0 Hopefully the games&#8217;ll played out fairly, not like in S Korea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No need to scratch your head.\u00a0 This is one of the public-education programs gearing up to the coming out party next Aug in Beijing .. with four major points: don&#8217;t insult former wartime enemy Japan; don&#8217;t swear; respect the referee; and don&#8217;t snap indiscriminate photos.\u00a0 .. think I&#8217;ll past the last one?\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0&#8220;Many Chinese don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}