{"id":992,"date":"2021-12-03T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2021-12-05T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T16:06:01","slug":"nutcracker-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"Nutcracker Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today and leading up today has been a wind whirl of emotions but one emotion that is consistent is joy. Overwhelming joy and awe. I am in awe of Isannah and her dedication. Tonight is the big full cast dress rehearsal of the Nutcracker in the city. She has been dedicated since day one, never missing a rehearsal even when there was a huge and very important family event, she knew she needed to be at rehearsal. She didn\u2019t want to let the cast and teachers down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She loves ballet but gets truly excited beyond words to be able to dance in the Nutcracker. She practices at home often and she even remembers other dancers&#8217; moves, especially Clara. One of her dreams is to play Clara in the Nutcracker. I\u2019m sure with her hard work and continued love for ballet she will get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Tomorrow is the big day and she is in both performances. It\u2019s always emotional when I see her on stage but when I know she is doing what she loves most, my heart beams with joy. There is no holding back the tears. As much as I try not to cry, tears sneak out and it\u2019s a moment like no other.<br>Isannah will be performing in the city! What a big girl. What an amazing ballerina. What a beautiful heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making dreams come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/PXL_20211204_175450476.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/PXL_20211204_175450476-312x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-993\" width=\"94\" height=\"307\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today and leading up today has been a wind whirl of emotions but one emotion that is consistent is joy. Overwhelming joy and awe. I am in awe of Isannah and her dedication. Tonight is the big full cast dress rehearsal of the Nutcracker in the city. She has been dedicated since day one, never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,56,32,83,31,82,80,25],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballerina-life","tag-ballet","tag-cobble-hill-ballet","tag-dreams","tag-nutcracker","tag-nutcracker-ballet","tag-twin-powe","tag-twin-power-gi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}