{"id":3208,"date":"2017-02-20T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2017-02-20T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:00:32","slug":"celebrating-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/fred-astaire-fads-history\/celebrating-70-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 70 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/iStock-485105550.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3210\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/iStock-485105550-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"458\" class=\"wp-image-3210 aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, Fred Astaire Dance Studios celebrates 70 years in business. 70 Years!! Can you believe it? What a legacy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that this franchise has been around that long and growing faster today than ever before. How does a company last that long?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty remarkable that a franchise can last that long and grow even faster 70 years into the journey. Like any company, we\u2019ve gone through lots of changes over the years, but we are in a great place right now.<\/p>\n<p>There are wonderful new opportunities on the horizon (stay tuned for news in the near future!)<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, it is an honor to be part of this wonderful company. Fred Astaire himself was such an icon. He&#8217;s somebody who had a way about him, a real gentleman personality, multitalented as a dancer, singer, actor.<\/p>\n<p>His personality continues today, infusing everything we do in this company with belief of what is possible. With happiness and joy and exhilaration on the dance floor.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/fads-pic-feet.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1607\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/fads-pic-feet-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"fads pic feet\" width=\"405\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1607\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though there are younger people who come into the studio and don&#8217;t know who Fred Astaire is \u2013 no joke, they ask\u00a0me if I\u2019m Fred; I usually say I\u2019m his grandson! \u2013 they are amazed when they learn who he was and what he created.<\/p>\n<p>He was a perfectionist with his dancing and everything he did &#8211; he would practice and practice until he had it right. That&#8217;s what we try to do with our students, continuing a great legacy started by a great man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Fred Astaire Dance Studios celebrates 70 years in business. 70 Years!! Can you believe it? What a legacy. It&#8217;s hard to believe that this franchise has been around that long and growing faster today than ever before. How does a company last that long? It\u2019s pretty remarkable that a franchise can last that [&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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fred-astaire-fads-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","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=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}