{"id":42869,"date":"2015-09-24T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42869"},"modified":"2015-09-24T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T16:06:32","slug":"the-awesome-unordinary-meet-marawa-the-celebrity-hula-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42869","title":{"rendered":"The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chicrebellion.tv\/video\/entertainment\/marawa-the-amazing\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicrebellion.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Chic Rebellion<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jazzijohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jazzi Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z87U5ZGOsT0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As children, we\u2019re told to go after our dreams and not to let anyone deter us from whatever it may be\u2026 Well, can you imagine being 18 years old and telling your parents that you dream of hula-hooping for a living? That\u2019s precisely what <a href=\"http:\/\/marawatheamazing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marawa Ibrahim<\/a> did.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim, better known as Marawa the Amazing, is a record-breaking hula-hooper! She currently holds the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guinness_World_Records\" target=\"_blank\">Guinness world record<\/a> for 160 hoops at once, and is known for roller-skating and hooping in high heels as part of her act. A natural born nomad, she was born to a Somalian father and an Australian mother. Inspired by the art of gymnasium, she took to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olga_Korbut\" target=\"_blank\">Olga Korbut<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josephine_Baker\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Baker<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sister_Act#Cast\" target=\"_blank\">Delores Van Cartier<\/a> to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Destined to live a world of her own making, Marawa enrolled in NICA- the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nica.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Circus Arts Australia<\/a>&#8211; and earned her Bachelor of Circus Arts. Although she specialized in swinging trapeze, she always knew that hula-hoops was where her future lie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/chicrebellion.tv\/video\/entertainment\/marawa-the-amazing\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper Chic Rebellion 2015-09-22 Jazzi Johnson As children, we\u2019re told to go after our dreams and not to let anyone deter us from whatever it may be\u2026 Well, can you imagine being 18 years old and telling your parents that you dream of hula-hooping for a living? That\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,4405,842],"tags":[986,21173,21174,21172,21178],"class_list":["post-42869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-videos","tag-australia","tag-chic-rebellion","tag-jazzi-johnson","tag-marawa-ibrahim","tag-marawa-the-amazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42869","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=42869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42870,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42869\/revisions\/42870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}