{"id":393,"date":"2008-08-09T20:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/?p=393"},"modified":"2019-11-28T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T13:10:48","slug":"beijing-olympics-in-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/beijing-olympics-in-lego","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Olympics in Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/08_08_09_legob_2.jpg\" alt=\"Lego Beijing Olympics 01\" title=\"lego_olymp_01\" width=\"499\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/08_08_09_legob_3.jpg\" alt=\"Lego Beijing Olympics 02\" title=\"lego_beijing_02\" width=\"499\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/08_08_09_legob_4.jpg\" alt=\"Lego Beijing Olympics 03\" title=\"lego_beijing_03\" width=\"499\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/08_08_09_legob_8.jpg\" alt=\"Lego Olympics Beijing 04\" title=\"lego_beijing_04\" width=\"499\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Beijing Olympic Village replica was created by the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group in under 100 hours. 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