{"id":11186,"date":"2013-02-18T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2017-08-07T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T02:41:30","slug":"baylor-students-join-harlem-shake-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2013\/02\/baylor-students-join-harlem-shake-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor students join &#8216;Harlem Shake&#8217; craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/today\/50794224#50794224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Today Show<\/a><\/em> has done one. Ditto for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/harlem-shake-daily-show-colbert-video-183439112.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Daily Show<\/em> and <em>The Colbert Report<\/em><\/a>. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-sBexna-D_c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my great-aunt&#8217;s retirement community<\/a> has shared their version online. So you knew it was just a matter of time until Baylor students got in on the act &#8212; and when they did, they did it with style.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 Baylor students gathered at the Judge Baylor statue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YRdDSWTWFgw&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perform their version of the Harlem Shake<\/a>, a 30-second dance that has gone viral across the Internet. (For more background, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Shake_(meme)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s what Wikipedia has to say about the craze<\/a>.) Here&#8217;s what these students came up with:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRdDSWTWFgw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the approximately 60 hours since the video was posted, it has already been viewed more than 43,000 times. (And if you enjoyed that, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tj4TBAhfyvE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baylor Theatre&#8217;s version<\/a>, straight from their production of the 1950s-era play &#8220;Born Yesterday.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor students!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You might also like:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/04\/students-celebrate-semester-end-with-flash-mob-michael-jackson-dance\/\">Students celebrate year-end with flash mob Michael Jackson dance<\/a>\u00a0(April 2010)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2008\/10\/nursing-students-work-hard-play-hard\/\">Nursing students go &#8216;Footloose&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0(Oct. 2008)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11193\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"harlemshake-feb13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/harlemshake-feb13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/harlemshake-feb13.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/harlemshake-feb13-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Today Show has done one. Ditto for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Even my great-aunt&#8217;s retirement community has shared their version online. So you knew it was just a matter of time until Baylor students got in on the act &#8212; and when they did, they did it with style. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-student-life","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}