{"id":595,"date":"2009-08-02T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/08\/gwen-verdon-walk-it-out.html"},"modified":"2009-08-02T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:57:00","slug":"gwen-verdon-walk-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Verdon – "Walk It Out""},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone with a lot of time on their hands realized that a vintage clip of Gwen Verdon dancing to “Mexican Breakfast” on 1960s TV synced up with the rapper Unk’s single “Walk It Out.” Reading the commentary, people are discussing how Beyonce emulated these steps. Homage or thief? You decide…<\/p>\n

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Someone with a lot of time on their hands realized that a vintage clip of Gwen Verdon dancing to “Mexican Breakfast” on 1960s TV synced up with the rapper Unk’s single “Walk It Out.” Reading the commentary, people are discussing how Beyonce emulated these steps. Homage or thief? You decide… Here’s the original: Here’s the … Continue reading Gwen Verdon – "Walk It Out"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1820,1957],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gwen-verdon","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}