{"id":195,"date":"2011-07-21T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-07-21T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:22:00","slug":"blaises-big-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/07\/21\/blaises-big-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaise&#8217;s Big Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/bbs1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blaise spent some time writing invitations for various camp staff who he ate meals with in the cafeteria. The event was his Big Show which was to be followed by his birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>Being 6 now, he is capable of producing a production. This one consisted of three parts:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/bbs2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A dramatic production (which I insisted he rehearse, and which I subsequently narrated as he mimed) about Blaise the Good Pirate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/bbs3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A magic trick taught to him by Bryan, one of the programming staff. He performed the \u201cpick a card, any card\u201d trick on Christie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/bbs4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The conclusion was an a cappella performance of 4 verses of \u201cLord of the Dance,\u201d the song that enchanted Blaise at the Anglican Church the week before.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, my son. And happy birthday too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaise spent some time writing invitations for various camp staff who he ate meals with in the cafeteria. The event was his Big Show which was to be followed by his birthday cake. Being 6 now, he is capable of producing a production. This one consisted of three parts: A dramatic production (which I insisted &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/07\/21\/blaises-big-show\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-195","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-family","9":"category-fatherhood","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}