{"id":4107,"date":"2013-02-07T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2013-02-02T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:56:47","slug":"billy-elliot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"Billy Elliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Billy Elliot (the musical) recently. I didn&#8217;t really have any expectations other than being pretty sure a boy was going to take up ballet. It was a really good show and I enjoyed it enough that I&#8217;d see it again. If you get the chance, I recommend you opt in.<br \/>\n<br \/>My favorite song was the grandmother describing the night she met Billy&#8217;s grandfather. The choreography was well-done and it was funny.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/billy+elliot+billyelliotthemusical1-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"billy+elliot+billyelliotthemusical\" title=\"billy+elliot+billyelliotthemusical\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/billy+elliot+billyelliotthemusical1-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/billy+elliot+billyelliotthemusical1.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><br \/>It was interesting that I thought the child version of Billy was really quite a good dancer, until the piece where he was dancing parallel to a professional male ballerina playing the adult-version of Billy. wow. what a contrast. It was really beautiful to watch them dance together, but also highlighted the differences. I have a whole new appreciation for ballet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Billy Elliot (the musical) recently. I didn&#8217;t really have any expectations other than being pretty sure a boy was going to take up ballet. It was a really good show and I enjoyed it enough that I&#8217;d see it again. If you get the chance, I recommend you opt in. My favorite song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[213,214],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-dvd-reviews","tag-billy-elliot","tag-musical"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}