{"id":522,"date":"2008-01-31T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/31\/tilt-a-whirl\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T17:49:20","slug":"tilt-a-whirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/31\/tilt-a-whirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilt-a Whirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0qRyOzq_ofQ&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0qRyOzq_ofQ&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have been watching old elegant skating by John Curry on youtube.  Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipglass.com\/\">Philip Glass<\/a>&#8216;s birthday; a good way to celebrate his birthday is with a piece done by two great skaters from the forgotten past. Curry wanted to introduce the idea that figure skating can also be an art form, not just a sport with medals, winners, and losers.<\/p>\n<p>He was light on his feet like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vCR8J34tKok\">Fred Astaire, see here<\/a>. Today Sasha Cohen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=97bP_WwBy2A\">Johnny Weir<\/a>, and Matt Savoie have inherited Curry&#8217;s elegant skating. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xFkRmLC8Stg\">Nocturn by Grieg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SXJqsoFwUic\">Twyler<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>His life was cut short with AIDS.<br \/>\nFound this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/femail\/article.html?in_article_id=455884&#038;in_page_id=1879\">article claiming that he died in the arms of Alan Bates.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been watching old elegant skating by John Curry on youtube. Today is Philip Glass&#8216;s birthday; a good way to celebrate his birthday is with a piece done by two great skaters from the forgotten past. Curry wanted to introduce the idea that figure skating can also be an art form, not just a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/31\/tilt-a-whirl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tilt-a Whirl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,83,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-figure-skating-dance","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}