{"id":384,"date":"2006-11-25T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T19:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp\/2006\/11\/another_cheery_take_on_the_sta\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T19:41:12","slug":"another_cheery_take_on_the_sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/2006\/11\/another_cheery_take_on_the_sta.html","title":{"rendered":"Another cheery take on the state of dance in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/\">Terry Teachout<\/a>, fellow Arts Journal blogger (among many other, illustrious things), has an interesting and comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/la\/?id=110009307\">column<\/a> in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal on the &#8220;decline and near-disappearance of dance in America.&#8221; (&#8220;Today&#8221; is Saturday November 25.) .<br \/>\nTeachout&#8217;s conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And therein lies the challenge of reviving dance in America: Anyone who seeks to launch a new company, or revitalize an old one, must start by figuring how to make large numbers of Americans <em>want to see something about which they no longer know anything <\/em>&#8212; save that Emmitt Smith does it. [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout, fellow Arts Journal blogger (among many other, illustrious things), has an interesting and comprehensive column in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal on the &#8220;decline and near-disappearance of dance in America.&#8221; (&#8220;Today&#8221; is Saturday November 25.) . Teachout&#8217;s conclusion: And therein lies the challenge of reviving dance in America: Anyone who seeks to launch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}