<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Today I went to Celebrate the World: An International Cultural Arts Festival held in Maryland Heights. While there, I had the opportunity to see: young girls from the Philippines perform ceremonial dances; a Japanese drum group (composed mostly of non-Japanese students) perform traditional drum performances that could compete with marching bands; a group of dancers of various ages (from grandchild to grandmother) perform traditional Greek dances; a group of dancers and drummers perform traditional West African dances and music (where are their backbones?); and a Latin orchestra perform Latin music accompanied by various salsa dancers.<\/p>\n <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Best of all, it was FREE! I had to cancel a trip to Europe that I had half-planned for this month but feel as if I’ve traveled farther than the original trip would have taken me. This afternoon, the world came to me. <\/p>\n <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n \n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I went to Celebrate the World: An International Cultural Arts Festival held in Maryland Heights. While there, I had the opportunity to see: young girls from the Philippines perform ceremonial dances; a Japanese drum group (composed mostly of non-Japanese students) perform traditional drum performances that could compete with marching bands; a group of dancers … Continue reading Around The World In A Couple Of Hours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace-archive"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Today I went to Celebrate the World: An International Cultural Arts Festival held in Maryland Heights. While there, I had the opportunity to see: young girls from the Philippines perform ceremonial dances; a Japanese drum group (composed mostly of non-Japanese students) perform traditional drum performances that could compete with marching bands; a group of dancers…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}