{"id":1405,"date":"2021-07-15T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2021-07-18T22:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T02:09:41","slug":"around-the-world-in-80-days-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/2021\/07\/15\/around-the-world-in-80-days-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in 80 Days &#8211; Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/07\/Kite-Day-Bernard-Spragg.-NZ-flickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1076\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/07\/Kite-Day-Bernard-Spragg.-NZ-flickr-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/07\/Kite-Day-Bernard-Spragg.-NZ-flickr-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/07\/Kite-Day-Bernard-Spragg.-NZ-flickr-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/07\/Kite-Day-Bernard-Spragg.-NZ-flickr-624x382.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/07\/Kite-Day-Bernard-Spragg.-NZ-flickr.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kite Day falls on January 19. Everyone who enters the kite competitions in the Singapore Kite Festival must make his or her own kite. Some kites are huge dragons or ships with 19 sails. Judges score competitors\u2019 kites on both artistic design and flying performance. There are team competitions too. The team has to design the kite and they are timed on how long it takes to make it fly. They also have to try to touch a target up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>What do you suppose the weather is like in Singapore in January? Would you fly a kite in January where you live? Here is a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/kidworldcitizen.org\/kite-flying-around-the-world\/\">pictures of kite festivals all over the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/116812184055636490\/\">making a kite<\/a> of your own and trying to fly it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/07\/Kite-Day-Bernard-Spragg.-NZ-flickr.jpg\"><\/a>Kite Day falls on January 19. Everyone who enters the kite competitions in the Singapore Kite Festival must make his or her own kite. Some kites are huge dragons or ships with 19 sails. Judges score competitors\u2019 kites on both artistic design and flying performance. There are team competitions too. The team has to  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdl\/2021\/07\/15\/around-the-world-in-80-days-singapore\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[669,55,762],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-awareness","tag-around-the-world-in-80-days","tag-kite-festival","tag-singapore"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Around the World in 80 Days - Singapore - Au Pairs in Southern Maryland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Around the World in 80 Days - Singapore - Au Pairs in Southern Maryland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kite Day falls on January 19. 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