{"id":54668,"date":"2017-07-30T00:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T00:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54668"},"modified":"2017-07-30T00:37:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T00:37:22","slug":"misty-copelands-latest-under-armour-ad-reminds-us-that-ballet-is-a-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54668","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland&#8217;s latest Under Armour ad reminds us that ballet is a sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2017\/07\/misty-copelands-latest-under-armour-ad-reminds-us-that-ballet-is-a-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Misty Copeland&#8217;s latest Under Armour ad reminds us that ballet is a sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For The Win: USA Today Sports<\/a><br \/>\n2017-07-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maggiehendricks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Maggie Hendricks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Under_Armour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Under Armour<\/a> has a new ad out featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Misty Copeland<\/a>, guaranteed to both make you want to work out and perhaps pick up a poetry book. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saul_Williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saul Williams<\/a> provides the backing poem, For Misty, with words as lyrical as her movements&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 66%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IFigcXV05Vw?ecver=2\" width=\"545\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The systemic structure built to keep me in place<br \/>\nis the stage I dance on<br \/>\nBlack and woman<br \/>\nMothership\u2019s my mother\u2019s hips beheld deep space<br \/>\nAstronaut of corporal grace&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2017\/07\/misty-copelands-latest-under-armour-ad-reminds-us-that-ballet-is-a-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Armour has a new ad out featuring Misty Copeland, guaranteed to both make you want to work out and perhaps pick up a poetry book. Saul Williams provides the backing poem, For Misty, with words as lyrical as her movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,20,842],"tags":[19921,27382,27383,19922,27384,27381,2346],"class_list":["post-54668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-usa","category-videos","tag-ballet","tag-for-the-win-usa-today-sports","tag-maggie-hendricks","tag-misty-copeland","tag-saul-williams","tag-under-armour","tag-usa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54668","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=54668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54669,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54668\/revisions\/54669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}