{"id":5386,"date":"2011-02-04T06:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T06:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/04\/people-dancing\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T06:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T06:53:18","slug":"people-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/04\/people-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"People Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the Al Jazeera English livestream off and on this week to keep up with events in Egypt. At some point, SteelyKid came in while I had it on, saw shots of the cheering crowds from Tuesday, and said &#8220;People dancing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometime on Wednesday, she marched over to me, and demanded to watch a video. I asked what she wanted, and she said &#8220;People dancing!&#8221; At that point, though, the live video was of people throwing Molotov cocktails off a hotel roof onto protesters below. I didn&#8217;t think that was really appropriate toddler fare, so I showed her this instead:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zlfKdbWwruY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Three-ish years later, that still gets me. <\/p>\n<p>Despite some scary moments over the last couple of days, the pictures from Cairo right now are pretty positive, which is impressive and inspiring. I&#8217;m amazed at the people who have spent days in that square, defending themselves from rocks, bombs, and bullets. Every time it&#8217;s looked like things were headed to an awful conclusion, they&#8217;ve bounced back.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they get what they want, without further bloodshed. I hope the final images from this episode are more heartwarming than anything in the clip above. In the meantime, if you need something that&#8217;s <em>guaranteed<\/em> to make you feel better about your fellow humans there&#8217;s always &#8220;people dancing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the Al Jazeera English livestream off and on this week to keep up with events in Egypt. At some point, SteelyKid came in while I had it on, saw shots of the cheering crowds from Tuesday, and said &#8220;People dancing!&#8221; Sometime on Wednesday, she marched over to me, and demanded to watch&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/04\/people-dancing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People Dancing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,28,136,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-video","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}