{"id":620,"date":"2010-06-08T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2010-06-08T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T10:55:00","slug":"flaming-limbo-lower-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Limbo Lower Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our evening in Trinidad, we attended a cultural show that knocked our socks off with national champion calypso singers, steel pan players, talented drummers, and limbo-ologists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shoes-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shoes-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"shoes\" title=\"shoes\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shoes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shoes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/drum-768x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/drum-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"drum\" title=\"drum\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/drum-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/drum-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our camera battery died shortly after the show began.  Thankfully, my iPhone camera still had some juice.  Too bad it isn&#8217;t the newly announced iPhone 4 because the video quality I captured is certainly not HD.  Nevertheless, prepare to be amazed.  The Flaming Limbo is the national dance of Trinidad, and we&#8217;ve never seen anything like it.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12380189&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12380189&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/12380189\">The Flaming Limbo of Trinidad<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1978497\">Sam and Shannon Bloomquist<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, the female performer who clears the flaming limbo stick with ease in the video above is really, truly a grandmother in her 60&#8217;s (I would have guessed 30, tops).  She was at one time the world record holder for clearing a flaming limbo stick at a mere 6 inches off the ground.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our evening in Trinidad, we attended a cultural show that knocked our socks off with national champion calypso singers, steel pan players, talented drummers, and limbo-ologists. Our camera battery died shortly after the show began. Thankfully, my iPhone camera still had some juice. Too bad it isn&#8217;t the newly announced iPhone 4 because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,99,65,49,50,95],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-dance","tag-limbo","tag-music","tag-sas","tag-semester-at-sea","tag-trinidad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}