{"id":3230,"date":"2017-03-20T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2017-03-20T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T10:00:30","slug":"what-stops-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/lifestyle-self-improvement\/what-stops-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Stops You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/03\/iStock-493471862.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3236\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/03\/iStock-493471862-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3236 alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0run into people who say they always wanted to learn how to social dance. I tell them to call our studio, schedule a first lesson, show up, be open and willing to listen to our certified professional instructors, take notes, stay for a group lesson, and come to a party and meet our students.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they do. Most of the time they don\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>And I always wonder why.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was at the health club working out. In the steam room afterwards, I struck up a conversation with a guy, and he asked me what I did.<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cOh I own a ballroom dance studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To which he said, \u201cOh I&#8217;ve always wanted to learn how to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had to ask. So I said, \u201cWhy haven&#8217;t you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stammered his reply. Which is to say, he didn\u2019t really reply. Because there is no reply to that question.<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cIt&#8217;s not hard &#8211; that&#8217;s all you have to do.\u201d We\u2019ll see if he comes.<\/p>\n<p>What stops you from dancing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0run into people who say they always wanted to learn how to social dance. I tell them to call our studio, schedule a first lesson, show up, be open and willing to listen to our certified professional instructors, take notes, stay for a group lesson, and come to a party and meet our students. Sometimes [&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-3230","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\/3230","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=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}