{"id":6221,"date":"2008-08-04T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2008-08-04T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T11:17:25","slug":"cypher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/read\/books\/cypher\/","title":{"rendered":"Cypher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of b-boys (as witnessed by anyone who has seen me watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/dance\/\" target=\"_blank\">SYTYCD<\/a>), so this book had me before I even opened the cover. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAcclaimed rock photographer Charles Peterson is back with a new subject\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe world of contemporary breakdancing. B-boying, as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s referred to by its adepts, centers around the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cypher\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (circle) created when b-boys and b-girls gather to practice or to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153battle.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bigger and badder than ever, breakdancing has grown since its beginnings in the early eighties to become a global youth phenomenon today. Yet it remains a highly individualized practice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall one needs to get down are some beats and a smooth floor (and, of course, scads of strength, style, and brio). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">[posted by katie]<\/font><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of b-boys (as witnessed by anyone who has seen me watch SYTYCD), so this book had me before I even opened the cover. Acclaimed rock photographer Charles Peterson is back with a new subject\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe world of contemporary breakdancing. B-boying, as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s referred to by its adepts, centers around the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cypher\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (circle) [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[275,240,241],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}