{"id":1949,"date":"2008-04-17T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2008-04-18T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T08:00:14","slug":"the-beautiful-thing-about-ashes-nick-woolsey-poi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/the-beautiful-thing-about-ashes-nick-woolsey-poi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful Thing About Ashes: Nick Woolsey: Poi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte and I have been learning poi spinning recently. One thing we&#8217;ve been doing is watching videos on the intertubes. We came across this video that introduced us to Nick Woolsey. Nick is pretty amazing. His videos show his excellent teaching, a puckish grin and an earnest streak 2 miles long. Oh and also that he is a freaking amazing poi spinner.<\/p>\n<p>Introductions done, here&#8217;s the video Charlotte found that introduced us to Nick. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playpoi.com\/poi_videos\/beauty_of_ashes\">more about this video<\/a> on his site and find him at <a href=\"http:\/\/Playpoi.com\">Playpoi.com<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/meenik\">Nick&#8217;s Youtube page<\/a> is worth watching.<\/p>\n<p id=\"player1\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\">Get the latest Flash Player<\/a> to see this player.<\/p>\r\n<noscript><p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]<\/p><\/noscript>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tdocument.getElementById(\"player1\").style.display = \"\";\r\n\t\r\n\tvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/flv-embed\/flvplayer.swf\",\"player1\",\"320\",\"260\",\"7\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"wmode\",\"transparent\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"height\",\"260\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"width\",\"320\"); \n\ts1.addVariable(\"file\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fire_dancing__the_beautiful_thing_about_ashes.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"image\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fire_dancing__the_beautiful_thing_about_ashes.jpg\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"link\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fire_dancing__the_beautiful_thing_about_ashes.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"overstretch\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showstop\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showdownload\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"autostart\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"bufferlength\",\"8\");\r\n\ts1.write(\"player1\");\r\n<\/script>\n<p>high quality .mov version: <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/beauty_of_ashes.mov\">beauty_of_ashes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte and I have been learning poi spinning recently. One thing we&#8217;ve been doing is watching videos on the intertubes. We came across this video that introduced us to Nick Woolsey. Nick is pretty amazing. His videos show his excellent teaching, a puckish grin and an earnest streak 2 miles long. Oh and also that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}