{"id":494,"date":"2011-03-14T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2011-03-14T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:48:22","slug":"caironatgeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/caironatgeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairo Belly Dance Video from National Geographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"500\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/caironatgeo\/screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11-47-13-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=196%2C147&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"196,147\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-14 at 11.47.13 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=196%2C147&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=196%2C147&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-500\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-14 at 11.47.13 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?resize=150%2C112&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Hello Dancers and Costumers,<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve returned to my desk after attending Rakkasah West in Richmond California. I really had a great time enjoying the performances, shopping the dealers and reconnecting with dance friends near and far. Before I sit down to write my Rakkasah Trend Report for 2011, I thought I would take a moment to share with you a really good little video clip from National Geographic. \u00a0In an effort to record the cultures of the world, National Geographic has made a series of video clips available on the web featuring such culturally rich ethnographic arts such as music, dance and theater. \u00a0 \u00a0I found this clip on Belly Dance in Cairo captures the sentiment of what is happening over there in the world of dance. \u00a0Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"460\" height=\"321\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"slug=egypt_cairobellydancers&amp;img=http:\/\/video.nationalgeographic.com\/video\/player\/media\/egypt_cairobellydancers\/egypt_cairobellydancers_480x360.jpg&amp;vtitle=Cairo%20Belly%20Dancers&amp;caption=Learn%20about%20belly%20dancing,%20now%20practiced%20by%20foreigners%20and%20Egyptians%20in%20Cairo,%20the%20entertainment%20capital%20of%20the%20Arab%20world.&amp;permalink=http:\/\/video.nationalgeographic.com\/video\/player\/places\/culture-places\/arts-and-entertainment\/egypt_cairobellydancers.html&amp;share=true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/images.nationalgeographic.com\/wpf\/sites\/video\/swf\/ngplayer_syndicated.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/caironatgeo\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-attachment-id=\"500\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/caironatgeo\/screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11-47-13-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=196%2C147&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"196,147\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-14 at 11.47.13 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=196%2C147&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=196%2C147&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><p>Hello Dancers and Costumers, Today I&#8217;ve returned to my desk after attending Rakkasah West in Richmond California. I really had a great time enjoying the performances, shopping the dealers and reconnecting with dance friends near and far. Before I sit down to write my Rakkasah Trend Report for 2011, I thought I would take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belly-dance","category-general","category-pubs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-14-at-11.47.13-AM.png?fit=196%2C147&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-7Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}