{"id":3069,"date":"2017-01-30T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:00:06","slug":"born-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/lifestyle-self-improvement\/born-dancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Born Dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-458338735.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3071\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-458338735-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Astaire's hand- and footprints next to Grauman's Chinese Theatre\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3071\" \/><\/a>Fred Astaire himself used to say, <em>Most people think you&#8217;re born with the ability to dance. All the great dancers he knew were taught and learned over time, with great practice and patience, how to dance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Real dancers are trained. It&#8217;s not an innate quality.<\/p>\n<p>You may know how to move to the music more than another person, but partner dancing is learned.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taught.<\/p>\n<p>And anyone can do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-510696504.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3070\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-510696504-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Which way should we take?\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3070\" \/><\/a>If you haven\u2019t started taking dance lessons because you believe you just don\u2019t have what it takes, banish that thought.<\/p>\n<p>Every single person can learn to dance if they really want to.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s stopping you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Astaire himself used to say, Most people think you&#8217;re born with the ability to dance. All the great dancers he knew were taught and learned over time, with great practice and patience, how to dance. Real dancers are trained. It&#8217;s not an innate quality. You may know how to move to the music more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle-self-improvement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}