{"id":266,"date":"2016-03-18T03:31:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T03:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-03-18T18:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:04:54","slug":"266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/18\/266\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Training for Hoopurbia 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hoopurbia <\/a>has crossed the Atlantic and made its home base in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. Hoopers — people who have integrated in the hula hooping culture — have been meeting in the local recreation center to train for a Friday night flash mob to be held at an undisclosed location somewhere in Los Angeles. Hoopurbia organizers plan to announce the location on their Twitter @hoopurbia<\/a>\u00a0soon.\u00a0Interested hoopers should know that the hooping comes to a close this Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"Marawa

Marawa the Amazing at the Echo Park Recreation Center warming up.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hula

Hula hoops come in all sizes. Many spend good money customizing their hoops with special tapes.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Los

Los Angeles has been home to a growing “Hooper” community since the early 2000s.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Instructor

Instructor Malcolm Stuart leads a flash mob rehearsal in Echo Park.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The first Hoopurbia was held in Berlin in 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoopurbia has crossed the Atlantic and made its home base in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. Hoopers — people who have integrated in the hula hooping culture — have been meeting in the local recreation center to train for a Friday night flash mob to be held at an undisclosed location somewhere in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10],"tags":[59,58,57,47],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}