{"id":2537,"date":"2010-01-09T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T13:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2010-01-09T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T13:30:45","slug":"ballroom_blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2537","title":{"rendered":"Ballroom Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC continues to demonstrate that it&#8217;s way ahead of the States when it comes to including people with disabilities in mainstream programming. It&#8217;s latest effort is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disaboomlive.com\/Blogs\/tiffiny\/archive\/2010\/01\/08\/bbc-to-debut-groundbreaking-wheelchair-dancing-reality-show.aspx\"><i>Dancing on Wheels<\/i><\/a>, a dance competition modeled after other reality shows like So You Think You Can Dance except that the pairings include one partner in a wheelchair and one partner who is able-bodied. The winners will represent the U.K. at the wheelchair Dance Sport European Championship competition.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00pnsnq\">BBC website<\/a> won&#8217;t let me play the trailer because it considers me a dirty foreigner, but the photo of the contestants is tastefully glitzy. And check out the biceps on the woman sitting in the dude&#8217;s lap. Yikes. Let&#8217;s hope her partner doesn&#8217;t break easily. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of dance shows, but I might check this out once it makes its way to BBC America or, ahem, other distribution channels. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC continues to demonstrate that it&#8217;s way ahead of the States when it comes to including people with disabilities in mainstream programming. It&#8217;s latest effort is Dancing on Wheels, a dance competition modeled after other reality shows like So You Think You Can Dance except that the pairings include one partner in a wheelchair <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2537' 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-2537","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-EV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","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=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}