{"id":938,"date":"2010-08-23T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2010-09-01T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:08:47","slug":"maos-last-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"MAO&#8217;S LAST DANCER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAO&#8217;S LAST DANCER- 2009.\u00a0Premise by Netflix. &#8220;A delegation from Madame Mao&#8217;s Beijing Dance Academy selects 11-year-old peasant villager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/RoleDisplay\/Li_Cunxin\/30116601\">Li Cunxin<\/a> to study ballet in far-off Beijing, where he trains for seven grueling years to become one of China&#8217;s greatest dancers. His efforts win him the opportunity to dance in America, opening his eyes to a new love and the possibility of a dramatic defection from China in this remarkable true story based on Cunxin&#8217;s autobiography.&#8221; <strong>Fairly good reviews but a few said the movie was too timid. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8\/10- <strong>Great dancing makes up for a somewhat\u00a0weak story. I enjoyed the movie despite all the schmaltz. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAO&#8217;S LAST DANCER- 2009.\u00a0Premise by Netflix. &#8220;A delegation from Madame Mao&#8217;s Beijing Dance Academy selects 11-year-old peasant villager Li Cunxin to study ballet in far-off Beijing, where he trains for seven grueling years to become one of China&#8217;s greatest dancers. His efforts win him the opportunity to dance in America, opening his eyes to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaryhistory","tag-docudrama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}