{"id":840,"date":"2010-09-29T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2010-09-28T06:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T13:53:21","slug":"p90-botwaeku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"P90 Botwaeku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another part of our village stay included a performance by a professional troupe of Cape Coast drummers\/dancers\/fire-eaters\/acrobats called Botwaeku Dance Ensemble.  <\/p>\n<p>Drumming for a living creates some pretty impressive arm muscles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/drumming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/drumming-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"drumming\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/drumming-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/drumming-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dancing\/acrobatics for a living produces some pretty impressive muscles all over your body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stand_on_backbend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stand_on_backbend-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stand_on_backbend\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stand_on_backbend-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stand_on_backbend-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As with any performance art, sometimes still images do not convey the essence of the art the way that video does.  What follows is a short montage to show some of the variety of dances and antics performed for us by the Botwaeku drumming and dance troupe:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15309365\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15309365\">Botwaeku Dance Ensemble<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1978497\">Sam and Shannon Bloomquist<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another part of our village stay included a performance by a professional troupe of Cape Coast drummers\/dancers\/fire-eaters\/acrobats called Botwaeku Dance Ensemble. Drumming for a living creates some pretty impressive arm muscles. Dancing\/acrobatics for a living produces some pretty impressive muscles all over your body. As with any performance art, sometimes still images do not convey [&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":[22,5],"tags":[113,116,112,49,50],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-travel","tag-africa","tag-akwonde","tag-ghana","tag-sas","tag-semester-at-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}