{"id":4566,"date":"2012-10-27T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2012-10-27T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:36:24","slug":"flour-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/flour-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Flour Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled upon this frenzied flour-blowing contest in a ghetto corner of Manila. Every one was having so much fun cheering the wheezing contestants; no one noticed the camera or stranger among them.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it was a rare moment to NOT get a Flower Power V-Sign. The hand gesture seems to be an automatic reaction when kids see a camera in The Philippines and many parts of Asia \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The only disturbing thing was that the stern-looking referee was armed with a metal rod. Lol. Curiously, the crowd dissapted as fast as the flour when the winner was determined. I didn&#8217;t stick around to find out why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4568\" title=\"Flour Power\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flour.jpg\" alt=\"Flour Power\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flour.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flour-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flour-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flour-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flour-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled upon this frenzied flour-blowing contest in a ghetto corner of Manila&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/flour-power\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,563,25,9],"tags":[594,1048,630,114,627,64,95,935],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-instagram","category-news-commentary","category-photography","tag-e3","tag-ghetto","tag-manila","tag-olympus","tag-philippines","tag-street","tag-travel","tag-v-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}