{"id":1119,"date":"2008-08-09T07:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:16","slug":"one-world-one-dreamand-tanks-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"“One World One Dream”…and Tanks Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was out soccering last night with Numbers Two and Three and their teams in the opening tournament of the year, so I haven’t caught much of the opening ceremonies yet. Scrolling through the 4-plus hours of recording on my DVR and hitting the highlights is on my to-do list today, after more soccer matches, mowing the lawn, my weekly elliptical trainer workout at the gym…phew, I should get a gold medal for doing all that.<\/p>\n

Number One, who was watching at home, called during the soccer matches and said it all seemed a little “creepy,” in a “if 1.3 billion people are capable of putting on this kind of show, what else<\/em> are they capable of doing?” sort of way. But when we got back to the house, he said, “That was the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life.”<\/p>\n

Granted, he’s not quite 20-years-old, but to have a worldly-wise Gen Y guy gushing like that, it must have been really something.<\/p>\n

To get an idea of what it might have been like to actually stand in “The Bird’s Nest”<\/a> during the opening ceremony, check out this uber-cool 360 sensation<\/a> at The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Our two Huntsvillians on the ground have also filed dispatches, HT<\/em> sports columnist Mark McCarter here<\/a>, and backstroke gold medal hopeful Margaret “You Can’t Holz ‘er Back” Hoelzer here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It turns out that one of Margaret’s suitemates is the forever-young 40-something swimming sensation Dara Torres<\/a>. How many 41-year-old mommies do you know who look like this?<\/a><\/p>\n

So, away we go. “One World One Dream” sounds nice, and I hope the Chinese can pull it off. But on the day when an estimated 4 billion people had TV access to these opening ceremonies, there was the sobering reminder, that good intentions notwithstanding, the world is still full of tanks too.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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