{"id":5883,"date":"2012-02-23T05:53:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:05:35","slug":"dergin-tokmak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/dergin-tokmak\/","title":{"rendered":"Dergin Tokmak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dergin-tokmak-busts-dubstep-moves-on-crutches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News posted a short article on German dancer Dergin Tokmak<\/a>&#8230; who is an amazing athlete! Stricken with polio as an infant, Tokmak is partially paralyzed from the waist down&#8230; but he&#8217;s a better dancer on crutches than\u00a0even many pros\u00a0with the\u00a0full use of their legs are.<\/p>\n<p>I was both\u00a0humbled and deeply\u00a0impressed. Take a look:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"838\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OasVtpPcjWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Below is Tokmak&#8217;s performance with the Cirque du Soleil in &#8220;Varekai&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"838\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWR5yp1VkZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5887418\/partially-paralyzed-acrobat-is-an-amazing-dancer-on-crutches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jezebel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, CBS News posted a short article on German dancer Dergin Tokmak&#8230; who is an amazing athlete! Stricken with polio as an infant, Tokmak is partially paralyzed from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}