{"id":538,"date":"2011-12-21T08:18:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=538"},"modified":"2011-12-21T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:21:20","slug":"french-liturgical-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/french-liturgical-dancing-538.htm","title":{"rendered":"French Liturgical Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/06\/Ballet_de_la_nuit_1653.jpg\/389px-Ballet_de_la_nuit_1653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\">Let us turn to bishops who had some standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">I have been researching the two-thousand-year war on dancing. The anti-dancing clerics come off as a bunch of spoilsports and wet blankets. Every now and then, however, one can see that a bishop might have legitimate objections. After he stopped laughing, the bishop tried to put an end to this French custom:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">The bishop of Grasse prohibited the <em>jouvines de C<\/em><em>\u00e2reme<\/em>, a Lenten festival with\u00a0 beribboned boys and girls dancing as a preliminary to a competition for who could piss the furthest, to the encouragement of rolling drums. (from John McManners, <em>Church and Society in 18<sup>th<\/sup> Century France<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">Just the boys, I hope. Tr\u00e9s fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-538\" data-postid=\"538\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-538 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us turn to bishops who had some standards. I have been researching the two-thousand-year war on dancing. The anti-dancing clerics come off as a bunch of spoilsports and wet blankets. Every now and then, however, one can see that a bishop might have legitimate objections. After he stopped laughing, the bishop tried to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}