{"id":52140,"date":"2012-01-20T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52140"},"modified":"2012-01-20T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:01:34","slug":"for-niles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/for-niles\/","title":{"rendered":"For Niles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ra62Prd6Vng\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/18\/arts\/dance\/niles-ford-dancer-and-choreographer-dies-at-52.html?_r=2&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=Niles%20Ford&#038;st=cse\">Niles Ford<\/a> had a larger-than-life personality, a wicked sense of humor and and a truly creative spirit. A Sagittarius by Sun, he knew how to DJ a dance party with infectious grooves, could impersonate anyone&#8217;s mannerisms perfectly with perfect mischief, and his career as a dancer and choreographer was really just taking off. A few days before he died unexpectedly in his sleep (heart attack) last weekend, I was wondering when he was going to get his lithe, athletic, beautiful self back to Portland to DJ a dance party. Then I got the call. <\/p>\n<p>I never got to see him perform his art live; he was based in Brooklyn, NY, so I usually saw him when he was taking a few days off from &#8220;the scene&#8221; or in transit to a dance festival. I was going to wait to post this video till next weekend, when his memorial service will be; but our mutual friend Emma dedicated her radio show to him this morning; I think today&#8217;s a good day to share his work with Planet Waves. <em>&#8211; amanda<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niles Ford had a larger-than-life personality, a wicked sense of humor and and a truly creative spirit. A Sagittarius by Sun, he knew how to DJ a dance party with infectious grooves, could impersonate anyone&#8217;s mannerisms perfectly with perfect mischief, and his career as a dancer and choreographer was really just taking off. A few &#8230; <a title=\"For Niles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/for-niles\/\" aria-label=\"More on For Niles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}