{"id":2248,"date":"2009-03-19T19:36:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2009-03-19T19:36:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:36:54","slug":"body_moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2248","title":{"rendered":"Body Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When is it appropriate for a buff able-bodied guy to toss around a guy with cerebral palsy like he&#8217;s a department-store mannequin? When they&#8217;re both part of Gimp, a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.nytimes.com\/video\/2009\/03\/17\/nyregion\/1194838595087\/collision-of-dance-and-disability.html\">dance company that features performers with and without disabilities<\/a>. The linked video shows the dancer with CP repeating some of reactions he gets from audience members. My favorite: &#8220;I thought this would be weird. I thought you would be weird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know, I weigh a lot less than that guy in the video. I&#8217;m imagining an avant-garde piece where a few dancers toss my crippled ass around in a game of human hot potato. The big finale would be me thrown into the audience for some crowd-surfing to a soundtrack of old-school kraut rock. This has &#8220;NEA grant&#8221; written all over it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is it appropriate for a buff able-bodied guy to toss around a guy with cerebral palsy like he&#8217;s a department-store mannequin? When they&#8217;re both part of Gimp, a dance company that features performers with and without disabilities. The linked video shows the dancer with CP repeating some of reactions he gets from audience members. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2248' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}