{"id":19892,"date":"2014-06-10T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/starring-with-the-dancer-roy-and-karen-merricks-meet-maos-last-dancer\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:18:00","slug":"starring-with-the-dancer-roy-and-karen-merricks-meet-maos-last-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/06\/starring-with-the-dancer-roy-and-karen-merricks-meet-maos-last-dancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Starring with the dancer \u2013 Roy and Karen Merricks meet \u2018Mao\u2019s last dancer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aZcAQZHumC4\/U5bpmwe_0HI\/AAAAAAAAm1s\/HJUj-j7EL6k\/s1600\/MTA%2B-%2BRM-KM%2Bwith%2BLi%2BCunxin%2BJune%2B2014-729477.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aZcAQZHumC4\/U5bpmwe_0HI\/AAAAAAAAm1s\/HJUj-j7EL6k\/s320\/MTA%2B-%2BRM-KM%2Bwith%2BLi%2BCunxin%2BJune%2B2014-729477.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6023258403713831026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Pictured at last week&#8217;s Starlight Five Chefs Dinner at the Sofitel Brisbane Hotel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/\">MTA \u2013 Mobile Travel Agents<\/a>&#8216; co-managing directors, Karen and Roy Merricks with Li Cunxin, who is known around the world as the author of &#8216;Mao&#8217;s last dancer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cunxin, currently the director of Queensland Ballet, was one of several VIP guests attending the event.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1993, the Starlight Five Chefs Dinners are one of the foundation&#8217;s signature fundraising events and are supported by some of Australia&#8217;s best chefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured at last week&#8217;s Starlight Five Chefs Dinner at the Sofitel Brisbane Hotel, MTA \u2013 Mobile Travel Agents&#8216; co-managing directors, Karen and Roy Merricks with Li Cunxin, who is known around the world as the author of &#8216;Mao&#8217;s last dancer&#8217;. Mr Cunxin, currently the director of Queensland Ballet, was one of several VIP guests attending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}