{"id":26190,"date":"2024-01-30T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T04:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26190"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T04:34:40","slug":"hinton-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26190","title":{"rendered":"Hinton Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was devastated to read that Hinton Battle has passed away. I first saw him as Scarecrow<\/i> in the original production of The Wiz<\/i> on Broadway.<\/p>\n

I had never seen anyone move like that. I have been a fan ever since.<\/p>\n

When I heard the sad news today, I immediately went to YouTube to rewatch him in Once More, with Feeling<\/i>. As always, his performance as the demon Sweets — which raised what was already the greatest episode of Buffy to a whole other level — took my breath away.<\/p>\n

I am grateful to have had the privilege to witness such talent and such sheer joy in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was devastated to read that Hinton Battle has passed away. I first saw him as Scarecrow in the original production of The Wiz on Broadway. I had never seen anyone move like that. I have been a fan ever since. When I heard the sad news today, I immediately went to YouTube to rewatch … Continue reading “Hinton Battle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26192,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions\/26192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}