{"id":3439,"date":"2020-05-29T00:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2020-05-29T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:26:02","slug":"hula-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/hula-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hula Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No Girls Allowed!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ever wanted to be a Hawaiian hula dancer with the leaf skirt? For men, this might not be so easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hula dance is commonly believed to be a feminine dance that involves swaying your hips and moving your hands in the shapes of pretty little flowers. But, what if I told you that the first Hula dancers were men?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In ancient Hawaii, men founded the strong but graceful Hula dance. Hawaiian Chiefs used to come and watch the advanced male hula dancers, and some were even chosen to become warriors. Today, Ke Kai O Kahiki\u2014one of Hawaii’s most famous male hula schools\u2014uses the dance of their ancestors to tell the stories of these strong and fierce warriors, and what better way to tell the story of one, than by training like one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“To dance like a warrior, you need to train like a warrior.” -Sunny Leutu, Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about how these fierce warriors of Hula trained like their warrior ancestors\u2014going as far as climbing coconut trees\u2014watch this minidocumentary<\/a>, then see what else GreatBigStory has to offer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is no safety net when the dancers climb the coconut trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No Girls Allowed! Ever wanted to be a Hawaiian hula dancer with the leaf skirt? For men, this might not be so easy. The Hula dance is commonly believed to be a feminine dance that involves swaying your hips and moving your hands in the shapes of pretty little flowers. But, what if I told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binge-watch","category-quarantine"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}