{"id":1232,"date":"2008-08-09T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/08\/09\/beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-montreal-chinatown\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:31:00","slug":"beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-montreal-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/09\/beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-montreal-chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in Montreal Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2744295716\/\" title=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3085\/2744295716_eef01e4ee8.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, I went to Chinatown to watch the opening ceremony to the 2008 Olympic Games. Sun Yat-sen park was full by 7:45AM, when I arrived. As soon as the speeches were done, there was a lion dance, before the organizers switched off the mute button on the Radio-Canada Television feed. The crowd naturally reacted with ohs, ahs and applause to the best parts of the initial choreography, like the switch blocks that formed the ancient and modern representations of the character for &#8220;peace&#8221; (\u548c).<\/p>\n<p>J&#8217;ai entendu vendredi matin qu&#8217;ils montraient la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie d&#8217;ouverture (et <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/Montreal\/2008\/08\/08\/002-chinois-pekin-ouverture.shtml\">le reste des jeux<\/a>) sur \u00e9cran g\u00e9ant au quartier chinois. Alors je m&#8217;y suis pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9 avant d&#8217;aller au boulot pour voir l&#8217;ambiance et rapporter quelques photos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/sets\/72157606607481452\/\">&gt;&gt; Voir toutes les photos \/ See all photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2744301530\/\" title=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3025\/2744301530_d55533abfd.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2743465711\/\" title=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3270\/2743465711_14ccdd5c87.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2744299268\/\" title=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3269\/2744299268_21517a7caa.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2743459759\/\" title=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3140\/2743459759_cf323553fb.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2744297456\/\" title=\"Radio One - Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3278\/2744297456_c04e946d26.jpg\" alt=\"Radio One - Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2744304386\/\" title=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3089\/2744304386_31f349596f.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Olympics @ Montr\u00e9al Chinatown\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday morning, I went to Chinatown to watch the opening ceremony to the 2008 Olympic Games. 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The crowd naturally<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/09\/beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-montreal-chinatown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in Montreal Chinatown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7831,7839],"tags":[2859,53,21,2858,2861,2860],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-neighbourhoods","tag-beijing-olympics","tag-chinatown","tag-people","tag-radio-canada-television","tag-sun-yat-sen","tag-the-2008-olympic-games"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in Montreal Chinatown - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/09\/beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-montreal-chinatown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in Montreal Chinatown - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Friday morning, I went to Chinatown to watch the opening ceremony to the 2008 Olympic Games. 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