{"id":40897,"date":"2015-04-17T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40897"},"modified":"2015-06-22T00:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T00:38:55","slug":"misty-copeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40897","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Misty Copeland<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The 100 Most Influential People<\/a>
\nTime<\/a>
\n2015-04-16<\/p>\n

Nadia Com\u0103neci<\/strong><\/a>, Five-time Olympic gold medalist<\/p>\n

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Ballet’s breakout star<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like all gymnasts, I\u2019ve done some ballet\u2014it\u2019s a part of our program. And people don\u2019t realize the tremendous amount of time and work you have to put in to do the maneuvers they do. Ballerinas like Misty Copeland<\/a> look so beautiful and perfect, but it takes thousands of hours of hard work to make it look that easy.<\/p>\n

It was an honor to learn that a movie about me inspired a 7-year-old Misty to see the joy in movement. When I competed in the 1976 Olympics<\/a>, no one thought that a 14-year-old from a place people couldn\u2019t find on a map could contend. Misty proves that success is not about how you grow up or the color of your skin. Her story\u2014of overcoming personal and physical challenges to become a soloist at the American Ballet Theatre<\/a>\u2014is the story of someone who followed her dreams and refused to give up. In that way, she is a model for all young girls…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Misty Copeland The 100 Most Influential People Time 2015-04-16 Nadia Com\u0103neci, Five-time Olympic gold medalist Ballet’s breakout star Like all gymnasts, I\u2019ve done some ballet\u2014it\u2019s a part of our program. And people don\u2019t realize the tremendous amount of time and work you have to put in to do the maneuvers they do. Ballerinas like Misty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20,25],"tags":[19921,19922,19919,19920,19784,3521],"class_list":["post-40897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-ballet","tag-misty-copeland","tag-nadia-comaneci","tag-nadia-elena-comaneci","tag-time","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}