{"id":1259,"date":"2009-08-18T22:03:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2009-08-19T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T20:39:00","slug":"prima-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/prima-ballerina\/","title":{"rendered":"Prima Ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1258\" title=\"Nutcracker 2001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ballet.jpg\" alt=\"ballet\" width=\"650\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ballet.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ballet-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is Paige at age 5 posing with the ballerinas from the Nutcracker Ballet in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Paige danced around the house from the time she could walk. We took Paige at age 5 to the Nutcracker wearing a dress as close to a tutu as we could create. She sat quietly through the show, enchanted by the beautiful dancing. At one point she leaned over to me and said, &#8220;I love the ballet so much, I just want to go up on stage and dance with them!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paige didn&#8217;t like to leave my side when she was young. I worried about that a little when I decided to sign her up for ballet lessons, beginning on her 6th birthday. She still talks about that first day of ballet like it was the day her life began.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has seen her dance knows that she has a special gift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1261\" title=\"Paige, 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Ballerina-Sarah.jpg\" alt=\"Ballerina Sarah\" width=\"438\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Ballerina-Sarah.jpg 438w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Ballerina-Sarah-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tonight Paige learned that she has been chosen for the second year in a row to dance the lead role in Oh Holy Night. What I thought was a once in a lifetime experience for her (and for me, too) will be repeated. This time I&#8217;ll bring my tissues. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll need them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Paige at age 5 posing with the ballerinas from the Nutcracker Ballet in 2001. Paige danced around the house from the time she could walk. We took Paige at age 5 to the Nutcracker wearing a dress as close to a tutu as we could create. She sat quietly through the show, enchanted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/prima-ballerina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prima Ballerina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}