{"id":6891,"date":"2026-08-31T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:12:22","slug":"in-conversation-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2026\/08\/in-conversation-70\/","title":{"rendered":"In conversation 70"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">We were at the Singapore Night Festival at the National Museum.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the night projection by The Fox, The Folks &amp; the Artusik, by the side of the museum, there was a performer on a swing.      The spotlights creating long shadows on the wall.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you go over to watch the performance?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dau: &#8220;It is the wrong time of the month!.  This should be held one month later!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me: &#8220;Since when you are so superstitious?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Singapore Night Festival is held during the seventh month of lunar calendar, Hungry Ghost.  When the gates of hell are opened for the ghosts to have their feasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were at the Singapore Night Festival at the National Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}