{"id":114,"date":"2007-06-15T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-06-15T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T13:26:00","slug":"hand-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Hand Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning my wife alerted me to the following events:  http:\/\/www.wtopnews.com\/?nid=25&#038;sid=1167803<\/p>\n<p>From the article:  They came, they auditioned and now Metro is ready to roll out its first ever group of Metro Performers.  The first group will appear &#8230; at the Dupont Circle Station. It is a duet that will be hand dancing.  &#8220;Two people come together and there&#8217;s a role for one person and a role for another and they get out there and do their thing,&#8221; says Lisa Richards with the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.  &#8220;The most important thing for hand dancing is that it is partner dancing. We don&#8217;t see a lot of that in our contemporary clubs.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I should say not.  This sounds like a tough gig.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I can just see explaining to the cop that, no, really, I was being paid by Metro to hand dance with my partner in front of the Dupont Circle Station.  &#8220;You see, officer, two people come together and there&#8217;s a role for one person and a role for another and they get out there and do their thing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right.  Get in the car, longhair.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning my wife alerted me to the following events: http:\/\/www.wtopnews.com\/?nid=25&#038;sid=1167803 From the article: They came, they auditioned and now Metro is ready to roll out its first ever group of Metro Performers. The first group will appear &#8230; at the Dupont Circle Station. It is a duet that will be hand dancing. &#8220;Two people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}