{"id":2119,"date":"2007-05-23T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2007-05-23T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T03:32:39","slug":"om-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/om-opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"OM Opening Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/OM-opening-1000.jpg\">The OM Opening Ceremony<\/a> has been said to be modeled on the Olympics, but there are only a few similarities. The States and Countries in do send representatives to march into the stadium. Brief bits of the national anthems are played. The ceremony ends with a shout in unison of &#8220;Let the Games Begin.&#8221; Really the Opening ceremony is more like a stadium concert with laser lights and smoke machines and loud music. Well, maybe a bit of both.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s opening ceremony filled MSU&#8217;s Breslin Arena. Over 800 teams are here to compete. Among the countries represented are Germany, China, Kazakhstan, and Mexico. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odysseyofthemind.com\/wf2007\/images\/bdsc_0060.jpg\">Hats are a big deal at OM gatherings<\/a> as are pins which can represent a state, a country, a team, or even a long term problem being worked on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.odysseyofthemind.com\/wf2007\/images\/bdsc_0032.jpg\">. Pins are traded all over sometimes giving the appearance of a large meet up with budding sidewalk &#8220;Rollex&#8221; salesmen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we left our team, they were looking for their international buddies, the team from Fushan Jiujiang Town Middle School in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guangdong\">Guangdong<\/a>, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OM Opening Ceremony has been said to be modeled on the Olympics, but there are only a few similarities. The States and Countries in do send representatives to march into the stadium. Brief bits of the national anthems are played. The ceremony ends with a shout in unison of &#8220;Let the Games Begin.&#8221; Really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}