{"id":126,"date":"2007-09-28T04:39:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T11:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/general\/akshara-hassan-working-for-olympics-2012\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T04:39:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T11:39:22","slug":"akshara-hassan-working-for-olympics-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/bollywood\/akshara-hassan-working-for-olympics-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Akshara Hassan working for Olympics 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian film actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamal_Haasan\">Kamal Haasan&#8217;s<\/a> younger daughter Akshara is the talk of the town. She is just 16 and has her eyes set on the Olympics already. <br \/>With dancing in her genes and a doting father, she&#8217;s just breezed through the first <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/aksharahaasan.jpg\" align=\"right\"> bronze test in ballroom latin conducted by the UK Alliance of Professional Teachers Of Dancing. <br \/>Ballroom Latin will be a competitive sport in the 2012 Olympics in London.<br \/>&#8220;I observe a lot. I try to get it right. I&#8217;ve been working hard,&#8221; said Akshara Haasan. <\/p>\n<p>Akshara&#8217;s elder sister Shruti is already into music, and is firmly routing for her little sister. <br \/>&#8220;I see a lot of Kamal in her. He&#8217;s a great dancer himself and she&#8217;s very talented and is naturally gifted for dancing,&#8221; said Jeffrey Vardon, Director, Hot Shoe Dance Comp.<br \/>So as she does the Cha Cha and the Latin jive, Akshara knows she has to keep her feet firmly on the ground. To qualify for the Olympics she&#8217;s got 4 more levels to pass in the next 5 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian film actor Kamal Haasan&#8217;s younger daughter Akshara is the talk of the town. She is just 16 and has her eyes set on the Olympics already. With dancing in her genes and a doting father, she&#8217;s just breezed through the first bronze test in ballroom latin conducted by the UK Alliance of Professional Teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}