{"id":37879,"date":"2017-08-05T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37879"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:28:42","slug":"learning-to-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/learning-to-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I grew up I learned<br \/>\nthat dancing is a sin,<br \/>\nflaunting the body like that.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what the crazy play<br \/>\nwe did was called when the rhythm<br \/>\nof music was involved. <\/p>\n<p>When we played records of the waltzes<br \/>\nof Stauss, for example, we\u2019d end up out of breath<br \/>\nand dizzy, practically dying, with all those whirling <\/p>\n<p>twirls in the living room. Baby dervishes,<br \/>\ngraceless, but not disgraceful. Once,<br \/>\nthere was no stopping us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I grew up I learned that dancing is a sin, flaunting the body like that. I\u2019m not sure what the crazy play we did was called when the rhythm of music was involved. When we played records of the waltzes of Stauss, for example,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37908,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37879\/revisions\/37908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}