{"id":3826,"date":"2009-01-21T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2009-01-21T21:34:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T03:34:50","slug":"kung-hei-fat-choy-2009-from-zaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/kung-hei-fat-choy-2009-from-zaia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kung Hei Fat Choy 2009 from ZAIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3827\" title=\"macau-new-year-2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/macau-new-year-2009.jpg\" alt=\"macau-new-year-2009\" width=\"297\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Kung Hei Fat Choy 2009 (Happy Chinese New Year) from the cast of ZAIA. 2009 is the Year of the Ox. Macau will be a crazy one week party starting the week of January 26 2009 for the week long Chinese New Year celebrations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Around 1996 I was in Tokyo for New Years Eve celebrations with monks ringing gigantic bells with wooden rams. But this is my first CHINESE New Years in China. Techs of Cirque&#8217;s ZAIA show were here for the 2008 Fat Choy, but this is the first one for artists of Zaia. We&#8217;ve been told &#8220;Macau will shut down&#8221; during the holiday week.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">We&#8217;ve all been given red envelopes with the ZAIA embossed logo to fill with money and give to locals for good luck; another traditiion of Chinese New Years. Our work week includes 11 shows for the celebrations, along with many special mini performances around the Venetian in Macau. Anyone know where I can buy some fireworks?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3828\" title=\"macau-new-year-2009-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/macau-new-year-2009-2.jpg\" alt=\"macau-new-year-2009-2\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kung Hei Fat Choy 2009 (Happy Chinese New Year) from the cast of ZAIA. 2009 is the Year of the Ox. Macau will be a crazy one week party starting the week of January 26 2009 for the week long Chinese New Year celebrations. Around 1996 I was in Tokyo for New Years Eve celebrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,818],"tags":[2092,2098,2085,2086,2095,2088,151,2096,2099,2084,2082,2081,4106,1068,2079,2087,2090,2089,2094,2091,1848,2083],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-ZI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}