{"id":5057,"date":"2011-11-10T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2014-07-15T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:21:54","slug":"learning-to-kneel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/2011\/11\/10\/learning-to-kneel\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Kneel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>CAS prof researches Yeats through traditional Japanese dance<\/h2>\n<p><I>BU Today<\/I><br \/>\nBy Amy Sutherland<br \/>\n11\/10\/2011<\/p>\n<p>The central position in Noh Japanese dance has the dancer kneeling, with her bottom resting on her feet, hands palm down on thighs, and head slightly bowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is torture,\u201d says Carrie Preston.<\/p>\n<p>Your knees begin to throb against the wood floor. Your feet fall asleep, then all feeling seeps out of your legs. Given her years of dancing in toe shoes, Preston is accustomed to being uncomfortable. Still, when she first attempted the kneeling position, called a seiza, she could hold it for only 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2011\/learning-to-kneel\/\">Read the full article on BU Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAS prof researches Yeats through traditional Japanese dance BU Today By Amy Sutherland 11\/10\/2011 The central position in Noh Japanese dance has the dancer kneeling, with her bottom resting on her feet, hands palm down on thighs, and head slightly bowed. \u201cIt is torture,\u201d says Carrie Preston. Your knees begin to throb against the wood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3223],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}