{"id":14498,"date":"2019-10-30T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=283866"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:07","slug":"11-year-old-cancer-survivor-with-one-leg-dances-with-professional-tapper-lord-peg-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/11-year-old-cancer-survivor-with-one-leg-dances-with-professional-tapper-lord-peg-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"11-Year-Old Cancer Survivor With One Leg Dances With Professional Tapper Lord Peg Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">When you love to dance, nothing can stop you from feeling the music. That seems to hold true for cancer survivors Abri Bentley, 11, and professional dancer Evan Ruggiero, 28, also known as Lord Peg Leg.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The two talented survivors are still dancing \u2014 and they\u2019re dancing together!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Their story is one of triumph and a new friendship.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Abri, from Scottsdale, Arizona, began dancing at a young age. However, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Ewing Sarcoma that caused her to lose her leg.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Evan is a professional tap dancer, and he also lost his leg to cancer. Neither of them gave up on their talents, though.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Their friendship began when Evan saw Abri dancing on Instagram. He knew he wanted to meet her. Abri met up with Evan, whom she calls her biggest inspiration. They trained together for a couple of days.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284087\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-one-leg-dancers\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"618\" class=\"size-full wp-image-284087 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan1-129x169.jpg 129w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan1-257x338.jpg 257w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/Inside Edition<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Evan was dancing when he was Abri\u2019s age. He actually began dancing when he was five years old, and went on to dance with acclaimed ensembles in his youth. When he lost his leg in college, he relearned how to tap dance on one leg.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">He taught Abri to do the same.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284086\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-one-leg-dancers\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-284086 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan2.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan2.jpg 470w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan2-195x169.jpg 195w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abri-and-evan2-390x338.jpg 390w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/Inside Edition<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cMy doctor said I could do anything I wanted except tap dancing, and so after he left the room, I said, \u2018Watch me,\u2019\u201d Abri said.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Recently, Evan\u2019s travels took him to Arizona, and he met up with Abri again. These two amazing cancer survivors picked up where they left off.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Watch Evan and Abri do what they do best \u2014 dance \u2014 in this inspiring video.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-one-leg-dancers\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you love to dance, nothing can stop you from feeling the music. That seems to hold true for cancer survivors Abri Bentley, 11, and professional dancer Evan Ruggiero, 28, also known as Lord Peg Leg.The two talented survivors are still dancing \u2014 and they\u2019re dancing together!Their story is one of triumph and a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44405,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions\/44405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}