{"id":5071,"date":"2012-07-20T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2012-07-20T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T10:00:27","slug":"tracey-emin-karen-pickering-olympic-torch-relay-2012-from-margate-to-westgate-on-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/tracey-emin-karen-pickering-olympic-torch-relay-2012-from-margate-to-westgate-on-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracey Emin &amp; Karen Pickering: Olympic Torch Relay 2012 from Margate to Westgate-on-Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were lucky enough to witness the Olympic Torch Relay on Thursday 19th July 2012 in Margate and Westgate-on-Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The torch was carried by local artist Tracey Emin to Margate&#8217;s main attraction &#8211; The Turner Contemporary.\u00a0 Tracey Emin then handed the Olympic Flame on to Birtain&#8217;s most successful swimmer Karen Pickering MBE who took a few moments in front of the cheering crowds to have her picture taken.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5073 aligncenter\" title=\"Day 62 - The Olympic Torch in Margate, carried by Tracey Emin\" alt=\"Day 62 - The Olympic Torch in Margate, carried by local artist Tracey Emin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Tracey-Emin-carrys-the-Olympic-Torch-in-Margate-1024x651.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere in Margate was absolutely brilliant, you can really see the positive effects The Games are already having on our country and they haven&#8217;t even started yet.\u00a0 Just wait until we start winning some medals, that will really boost the morale of the nation, God knows we need it.<\/p>\n<p>We also managed to get a view of the Olympic Torch at Margate&#8217;s famous Clock Tower and past Dreamland.\u00a0 In the video at the top of this post you can see several other torchbearers who carried the torch between Margate and Westgate-on-Sea &#8211; home of SelectSpecs.com and the World&#8217;s Cheapest Prescription Glasses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5075 aligncenter\" title=\"Tracey Emin hands flame over to Karen Pickering\" alt=\"Tracey Emin hands flame over to Karen Pickering\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Tracey-Emin-hands-flame-over-to-Karen-Pickering.jpeg\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tracey Emin passing the Olympic Flame on to Karen Pickering in Margate (19th July 2012).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5076 aligncenter\" title=\"Karen Pickering Leaves The Turner Contemporary in Margate with Olympic Flame\" alt=\"Karen Pickering Leaves The Turner Contemporary in Margate with Olympic Flame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Karen-Pickering-Leave-The-Turner-Contemporary-in-Margate-with-Olympic-Flame.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karen Pickering Leaves The Turner Contemporary in Margate with Olympic Flame in front of huge crowds of cheering supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were lucky enough to witness the Olympic Torch Relay on Thursday 19th July 2012&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[653,1227,1381,1620,1622,1624,1886,2350,2371,2492],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}