{"id":44202,"date":"2016-02-09T01:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44202"},"modified":"2016-02-09T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:26:06","slug":"a-ballerinas-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44202","title":{"rendered":"A Ballerina&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/ballerinas-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Ballerina&#8217;s Tale<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson_George\" target=\"_blank\">Nelson George<\/a> | in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/?topic=dance\" target=\"_blank\">Dance<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Lens<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\" target=\"_blank\">Public Broadcasting Service<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Premieres 2016-02-08<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/ballerinas-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ballerinas-tale-sig-1920x830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Few dancers reach the highest levels of classical ballet; of that few only a fraction are black women. Against the odds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a> has made history by becoming the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Ballet_Theatre\" target=\"_blank\">American Ballet Theatre<\/a>, considered the pinnacle of ballet in the United States. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aballerinastale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Ballerina\u2019s Tale<\/a><\/em> is an intimate look at this groundbreaking artist as she breaks through barriers and transcends her art.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/ballerinas-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ballerina&#8217;s Tale By Nelson George | in Dance Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Premieres 2016-02-08 Few dancers reach the highest levels of classical ballet; of that few only a fraction are black women. Against the odds, Misty Copeland has made history by becoming the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,20,842],"tags":[19921,6725,9849,19922,13665,6107,6108],"class_list":["post-44202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-independent-lens","tag-misty-copeland","tag-nelson-george","tag-pbs","tag-public-broadcasting-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202","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=44202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44203,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202\/revisions\/44203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}