{"id":998,"date":"2007-10-17T22:34:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T02:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/last-bit-of-cintra\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:30:28","slug":"last-bit-of-cintra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/last-bit-of-cintra\/","title":{"rendered":"Last bit of Cintra"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the earlier quotes on L.A. didn’t sell you the book, I’m going to take one more shot at convincing you, and then I’m going to shut up about it. Promise.<\/p>\n

\"Surya<\/p>\n

France\u2019s Surya Bonaly, the beautiful black ice skater, has gotten screwed by the judges every time I\u2019ve ever seen her compete. Surya Bonaly is a blazing star, she is Josephine Baker, and should be dragged around topless on her skates by a snow leopard to Perez Prado rumbas. Her energy is snazzy, suave, and whimsically erotic. She even makes falling on her ass look Parisienne. She always laughs a sophisticated laugh to herself while watching her low scores roll up; she\u2019s a truly Teflon glamour-puss, a great lover of the ironies of life and sport, and the judges can\u2019t stand her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the earlier quotes on L.A. didn’t sell you the book, I’m going to take one more shot at convincing you, and then I’m going to shut up about it. Promise. France\u2019s Surya Bonaly, the beautiful black ice skater, has gotten screwed by the judges every time I\u2019ve ever seen her compete. Surya Bonaly is a blazing star, she is… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[458,125],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-quote","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-g6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}