{"id":364,"date":"2009-06-19T04:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","slug":"aussie-chants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/364","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Chants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember going to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=117\">baseball game in Japan <\/a>and being amazed at the coordinated chants of the crowd.  They were very complex, each a whole song, and lead by a chant coordinator in each stand.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to attend the Australia &#8211; Japan World Cup qualifier in Melbourne on Tuesday evening with a mixed Australian \/ Japanese group.  A couple of times the (mostly Australian) crowd broke into a chant that awed my Japanese friends.  The chant was a simple oh-ay oh-ay so it wasn&#8217;t obvious at first what caused their reaction.  After a few minutes thought, I realised that each stand in Japan had run their own chant in their own time, but the Aussie crowd picked up the chant stadium-wide with no coordination to create one synchronised wave of sound.  Perhaps the score was a reflection of the quality of chants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember going to a baseball game in Japan and being amazed at the coordinated chants of the crowd. They were very complex, each a whole song, and lead by a chant coordinator in each stand. I was lucky enough to attend the Australia &#8211; Japan World Cup qualifier in Melbourne on Tuesday evening with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/364\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aussie Chants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}