{"id":7717,"date":"2024-08-21T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=7717"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:35:40","slug":"david-martinez","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/member\/david-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"David Martinez \u2013 Dance Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is David Martinez and I am an Instructor\/Manager at Fred Astaire Dance Studios Brownsville. I was born and raised in beautiful South Texas, specifically, Brownsville! My passion and love for ballroom dance began when I was in the fifth grade through a program our districts Fine Arts Director started. Dr. Rebecca Rendon, the master mind behind incorporating Ballroom Dance in our school district, encouraged all students to give dance a chance and try it, the rest was history. My favorite dances to this day are the Viennese Waltz and any style in Latin. As far as my passions go, I am extremely passionate about teaching the next generation of people. Whether it be in dancing or just life in general. I have a saying,\u201d if I don\u2019t help at least one person in a positive way today, in any shape or form, it was an unsuccessful day.\u201d Finally, I believe the biggest misconception about ballroom dancing is the fact that people think dancing is too feminine. I express myself through dance just as any other athlete, teacher, engineer, chef, politician, or person would in their respective fields. Dancing can only be expressed through body movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7224,"template":"","class_list":["post-7717","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/7717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/7717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brownsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}