{"id":88,"date":"2011-04-23T07:18:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T07:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-04-23T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T07:18:55","slug":"carnival-of-the-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of the Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Singing It by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5644504145\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5181\/5644504145_11d0ccd425.jpg\" alt=\"Singing It\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe elementary school at Beijing City International School (<a href=\"http:\/\/bcis.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\">BCIS<\/a>) had a show on Friday called the Carnival of the Animals. Each grade dressed in costume as different animals and preformed a song or a dance. \u00c2\u00a0The costumes were very elaborate and I am sure were all hand sewn somewhere here in Beijing. \u00c2\u00a0There was everything from turtles, to elephants, to donkeys, to dragons and lions. \u00c2\u00a0Miles was both a lion and a dragon.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/sets\/72157626430827445\/\" target=\"_blank\">full set on flickr<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0But here are a few more of my favorites :<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Lions Stare by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5644371191\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5028\/5644371191_962a9bfd69.jpg\" alt=\"A Lions Stare\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Friends by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5644795817\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5189\/5644795817_8c88c62714.jpg\" alt=\"Friends\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ooooohhhhh by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5645092324\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5303\/5645092324_2c19e1ac4e.jpg\" alt=\"Ooooohhhhh\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tada by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5644923258\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5027\/5644923258_a97cd2e088.jpg\" alt=\"Tada\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Conversant Chickens by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5645346272\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5070\/5645346272_8d03bed30e.jpg\" alt=\"The Conversant Chickens\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Three Elephants by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5644996228\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5067\/5644996228_0d9febc1c0.jpg\" alt=\"Three Elephants\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niffgurd\/5645279356\/\" title=\"Ready to Soar by Mark Griffith, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5185\/5645279356_23a952a67a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Ready to Soar\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elementary school at Beijing City International School (BCIS) had a show on Friday called the Carnival of the Animals. Each grade dressed in costume as different animals and preformed a song or a dance. \u00c2\u00a0The costumes were very elaborate and I am sure were all hand sewn somewhere here in Beijing. \u00c2\u00a0There was everything &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-bcis","category-by-mark","category-living-in-beijing","category-school","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinagriffith.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}