{"id":85,"date":"2008-07-12T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-07-12T22:51:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T06:51:51","slug":"black-belt-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/black-belt-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Belt Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cross kitty corner at SW Yamhill and Park toward the venerable Pythian Building, built in 1907 by the Knights of Pythias, an American secret society whose members, in their fraternal wisdom, included in this building at least five dance studios and one grand ballroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A street musician plays an upbeat violin concerto.\u00a0 The afternoon is shimmery, hot, but not too hot.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the building, the elevator won&#8217;t stop at StudioNia on the fourth floor.\u00a0 Instead, we spiral. \u00a0We ride up to the fifth floor, back to the first floor, and then walk up. \u00a0First I hear them, then I see them. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two flights of the wide, old stairwell are full of chattering Nia Brown Belts, waiting for the fourth floor doors to be opened, perched like a bunch of colorful, talkative cranes that have migrated here from all over the world, and wait, together, on the river bank for some mysterious signal to jump in and swim.<\/p>\n<p>After registration, we enter the studio, where, like every Nia intensive, there is a circle of pillows, each with a name tag and a stack of materials for the week.\u00a0 We find our names, we sit, and it begins. \u00a0We enter the river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3175\/2663495128_d294ea8d4a_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cross kitty corner at SW Yamhill and Park toward the venerable Pythian Building, built in 1907 by the Knights of Pythias, an American secret society whose members, in their fraternal wisdom, included in this building at least five dance studios and one grand ballroom.\u00a0 A street musician plays an upbeat violin concerto.\u00a0 The afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-belt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}