{"id":65550,"date":"2019-07-14T23:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T23:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65550"},"modified":"2019-07-15T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:00:56","slug":"dancing-in-the-rain-a-second-sunday-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65550","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in the rain, a second Sunday surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; one concept, two versions &#8212; one sacred and one secular, one amateur and one professional, one demotic and one elite ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The sacred<\/strong> takes the form of <strong>praise dancing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Note: there&#8217;s some loud glossolalia and English interjections which sound as though they come from close to the camera, so you&#8217;re advised to set your volume at 50%, even though the sound is initially very faint.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZ1juHeIqHU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveabout.com\/praise-dance-basics-1007388\">One definition<\/a> of praise dancing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Praise dancing is a liturgical or spiritual dance that incorporates music and movement as a form of worship rather than as an expression of art or as entertainment. Praise dancers use their bodies to express the word and spirit of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>The secular<\/strong>, by contrast, is indeed both entertainment and an expression of art:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w40ushYAaYA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The contrast here is between the <strong>amateur <\/strong>(from the Latin, <em>amare<\/em>, one who acts out of sheer love) and the professional (effectively, one who has acquired significant specific skills and is financially rewarded accordingly) &#8212; the <strong>demotic <\/strong>and the <strong>elite<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Your comments are most welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; one concept, two versions &#8212; one sacred and one secular, one amateur and one professional, one demotic and one elite ] . The sacred takes the form of praise dancing: Note: there&#8217;s some loud glossolalia and English interjections which sound as though they come from close to the camera, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,384,1939,1938,1940,1855,1716,480,868,867,1721,946,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur","category-art","category-contrast","category-dance","category-demotic","category-elite","category-liturgy","category-music","category-sacred","category-secular","category-spirit","category-sunday-surprise","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65550"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65596,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65550\/revisions\/65596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}