{"id":116488,"date":"2016-04-26T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116488"},"modified":"2016-04-29T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:08:30","slug":"prince-and-misty-copeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116488","title":{"rendered":"Two Beautiful Ones: Prince and Misty Copeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3DaE75tEl4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThis has been making the rounds but it&#8217;s so beautiful I wanted to share it, just in case people haven&#8217;t seen it.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what this means. Ballet is not a mainstream pursuit. People are gigantic stars in the ballet world and barely &#8220;cross over&#8221; into pop culture name-recognition. There are exceptions, and of course Misty Copeland is an exception. <\/p>\n<p>But besides Misty Copeland&#8217;s high profile, this is on another level. <\/p>\n<p>Here is Prince, one of the biggest stars in the world, saying: &#8220;Ladies and gentleman. Misty Copeland.&#8221; Here is Prince, SETTING HER UP so we can get a GOOD LOOK AT HER and revel in her. Of course the performance is also about him, because he&#8217;s Prince, but the POINT of the whole thing is HER. <\/p>\n<p>And watch how he turns himself into a ballet barre for her. That&#8217;s his job. To keep still (Prince?? STILL?),and hold out his arms straight as a board so she can hold onto him and do her thing.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an extraordinary pas de deux. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been making the rounds but it&#8217;s so beautiful I wanted to share it, just in case people haven&#8217;t seen it. Imagine what this means. Ballet is not a mainstream pursuit. People are gigantic stars in the ballet world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23],"tags":[1507,2197,2453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116488"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116497,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116488\/revisions\/116497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}