{"id":3807,"date":"2011-12-04T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2011\/12\/04\/o"},"modified":"2020-10-03T05:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T12:44:52","slug":"o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=3807","title":{"rendered":"O"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">My first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirquedusoleil.com\/en\/welcome.aspx\">Cirque de Soleil<\/a> show was in 1995, when I worked for the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holidayinn.com\/hotels\/us\/en\/reservation?sicreative=9657188713&amp;dp=true&amp;sicontent=0&amp;sitrackingid=237723296&amp;cm_mmc=Google-PS-HolidayInn-_-G+B-Core-_-Holiday%2BInn-_-holiday+inn&amp;siclientid=1952\">Holiday Inn<\/a>. We went to Las Vegas for a national convention, and they treated us to a showing of Mystere.<\/p>\n<p>It was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, the brothers, their wives, and I drove back to Las Vegas to see the Mystere show again. Being older, I had a greater appreciation for it. The artistry, acrobatics, athleticism, and sheer beauty of it was breath taking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/41291-img_0251.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/41291-img_0251.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tonight I went to see another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirquedusoleil.com\/en\/welcome.aspx\">Cirque de Soleil<\/a> show, &#8220;O&#8221; at the beautiful<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellagio.com\/\"> Bellagio<\/a> hotel. It, to me, made Mystere look like a children&#8217;s puppet show. I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it in my life. I still can&#8217;t get my jaw to close.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tingling, it was that good. Man, I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegas.com\/?cm_guid=1-_-100000000000000025804-_-5802733224&amp;cm_mmc=google-_-High+Volume+Terms-_-Las+Vegas+-+Exact-_-las+vegas&amp;gclid=CNWsgqOp6qwCFSWCtgodqGZpKA\">Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/9f3a8-img_0252.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/9f3a8-img_0252.jpg?resize=320%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first Cirque de Soleil show was in 1995, when I worked for the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowqprcCw:productID":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7315],"tags":[5126],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","tag-las-vegas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/9f3a8-img_0252.jpg?fit=1218%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s99I7P-o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12941,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/12941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}