{"id":159,"date":"2007-09-27T06:26:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T11:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/1190892399608.html"},"modified":"2007-09-27T06:26:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T11:26:39","slug":"blogentry-savion-glover-teaches-penguins-to-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Savion Glover teaches penguins to dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Savion Glover was a guest on Dancing With The Stars.  He&#039;s now introduced as the World&#039;s Greatest Tap Dancer, and since Gregory Hines died, that is probably accurate.  He did a very weird number wearing these funky green boots, so it sound a lot more stompy than tappy, but it was still a good show, and he&#039;s obviously so amazingly comfortable in what he does that the smile never left his face.  He never looked like it was anything more than warm up.<\/p>\n<p\/>My kids, 3 and 5, are in dance class and both know about tap.  So I asked them through the magic of Tivo if they wanted to see what the world&#039;s greatest tap dancer looked like.  They were both very impressed.<\/p>\n<p\/>I explained that he was also the guy who &#034;taught the penguin how to dance in Happy Feet.&#034;  I then had to explain why he didn&#039;t teach them *all* how to dance  (&#034;They could all dance a little,&#034; I explained, &#034;But Mumble was really really good at it.&#034;)<\/p>\n<p\/>And then my 5yr old came out with the quote of the morning:<\/p>\n<p\/>&#034;Tap dancing is like sign language for your feet.&#034;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Savion Glover was a guest on Dancing With The Stars. He&#039;s now introduced as the World&#039;s Greatest Tap Dancer, and since Gregory Hines died, that is probably accurate. He did a very weird number wearing these funky green boots, so it sound a lot more stompy than tappy, but it was still a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}