{"id":7181,"date":"2018-11-12T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2018-11-12T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T10:00:40","slug":"dont-be-that-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/ballroom-dances\/dont-be-that-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be That Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/11\/iStock-831498890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"491\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5403 alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you that guy?<\/p>\n<p>The guy standing on the side, watching everyone dance and having fun, wishing you could get out there and lead a gorgeous woman on the dance floor.<\/p>\n<p>The guy kicking at his own heels, regretting the opportunity to learn to dance and impress himself and everyone out there.<\/p>\n<p>I remember a video ad that showed a man walking into a dance club, maybe it was an event or a party. In any case, people were dancing and having a great time and the main character stands off to the side, looking foolish, not knowing what to do, a classic wallflower.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many of those guys around \u2013 but there don\u2019t have to be!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be that guy.<\/p>\n<p>It just takes some effort. Dancing is a skill that can be taught and learned. So many people don\u2019t make the time or effort to try, and then they wish they had. Maybe it\u2019s the office holiday party, your niece\u2019s wedding, your high school reunion.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever it is, you\u2019ll end up standing to the side of the dance floor, wishing you\u2019d made the time to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the horror before it happens. Take the time now so you\u2019re never that guy. You\u2019ll be able to ask somebody to dance, get on the floor and enjoy yourself with everybody else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you that guy? The guy standing on the side, watching everyone dance and having fun, wishing you could get out there and lead a gorgeous woman on the dance floor. The guy kicking at his own heels, regretting the opportunity to learn to dance and impress himself and everyone out there. I remember a [&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":[18,19,23],"tags":[153,110],"class_list":["post-7181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballroom-dances","category-dance-lessons","category-lifestyle-self-improvement","tag-dance-class","tag-dancing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181","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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}