{"id":1100,"date":"2015-06-03T00:22:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expo98.dev2.shareit.dev\/a-ideia-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-31T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:18:55","slug":"the-ideia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memoriasexpo-stg.shareit.pt\/en\/the-ideia\/","title":{"rendered":"The idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The idea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two friends and a plate of cod \u00e0 Br\u00e1s\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only thing that Ant\u00f3nio Mega Ferreira, considered to be the \u2018father\u2019 of Expo\u201998, doesn\u2019t remember is the date. The year was 1989 and it was a Thursday, the day when cod \u00e0 Br\u00e1s was served at the legendary Martinho da Arcada, in Lisbon. Longstanding friends Mega Ferreira and Vasco Gra\u00e7a Moura, then working together on the Discoveries Committee, were exchanging ideas between mouthfuls. Portugal\u2019s commissioner at Seville\u2019s Expo in 1992, Gra\u00e7a Moura, threw down the challenge: &#8220;What if we held an international exposition?&#8221; Mega Ferreira was caught by surprise. \u00a0\u201cThe regulations of the BIE (Bureau International des Expositions) provide for a smaller exposition than the one in Seville\u201d, Gra\u00e7a Moura pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Full of enthusiasm, the two friends voiced their thoughts out loud and traced the paths. The first theme to emerge was \u201cEast meets West\u201d, an &#8220;Oriental Market which would be a meeting in Lisbon of eastern technologies and western know-how. They quickly dropped this idea after studying the universal exposition regulations. After that they moved onto the idea of the sea and oceans. That summer they submitted the outline of the idea to the Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"...","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The idea - Memoria Expo 98<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mega Ferreira e Vasco Gra\u00e7a Moura, amigos de longa data, s\u00f3 n\u00e3o se recorda do dia em que tiveram a ideia entre garfadas no m\u00edtico Martinho da Arcada, Lx.\" \/>\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=\"A ideia da Expo98: &quot;E se fiz\u00e9ssemos uma exposi\u00e7\u00e3o internacional?&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ant\u00f3nio Mega Ferreira, considerado o \u2018pai\u2019 da Expo\u201998, s\u00f3 n\u00e3o se recorda do dia. 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