{"id":3995,"date":"2006-11-29T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3995"},"modified":"2006-11-29T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T16:58:54","slug":"old_folk_can_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/old_folk_can_st\/","title":{"rendered":"Old folk can still dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about the fact that, as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stp.uh.edu\/vol61\/951129\/3b.html\">over 30<\/a>, I am now officially old. I mean, James Bond is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0185819\/\">30-something<\/a>, which makes this the first time in my life that I have been in the same decade as a Bond actor. <\/p>\n\n<p>However, between popping arthritis medicine and obsessing about the fact that I have to settle down before it&#8217;s too late, I remembered something. Old folk can <em>still <\/em>dance. I don&#8217;t just mean gorgeous professional dancers like DesiDancer, I mean ordinary uncles and aunties. I&#8217;m not saying that they can grind, freak or krump (although I&#8217;ll bet DD can <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clown_dancing\">krump like a clown<\/a>) I mean that they can <em>dance<\/em> which is to me a far more beautiful thing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Herewith, exhibit A [via Vinod], Gurdas Maan&#8217;s Babe Bhangra Pounde Ne:<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>\n<center><object height=350 width=425><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZBia1KqFCOo\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZBia1KqFCOo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>If I can dance like that, when I&#8217;m that age, I&#8217;ll be a happy man.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about the fact that, as an over 30, I am now officially old. I mean, James Bond is now a 30-something, which makes this the first time in my life that I have been in the same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/old_folk_can_st\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1,47,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}