{"id":5759,"date":"2019-03-28T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/?page_id=5759"},"modified":"2019-04-03T01:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:41:04","slug":"argentine-tango","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/argentine-tango\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Tango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many legends and stories about the origins and development of tango. Tango is a dance and music that originated in Buenos Aires at the turn of the century, developed in the melting pot of cultures that was Buenos Aires. The word Tango was used at the time to describe various music and dance.<\/p>\n<p>The exact origins of Tango\u2014both the dance and the word itself\u2014are lost in myth and an unrecorded history. The generally accepted theory is that in the mid-1800s, African slaves were brought to Argentina and began to influence the local culture. The word \u201cTango\u201d may be straightforwardly African in origin, meaning \u201cclosed place\u201d or \u201creserved ground.\u201d Or it may derive from Portuguese (and from the Latin verb tanguere, to touch) and was picked up by Africans on the slave ships. Whatever its origin, the word \u201cTango\u201d acquired the standard meaning of the place where African slaves and others gathered to dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many legends and stories about the origins and development of tango. Tango is a dance and music that originated in Buenos Aires at the turn of the century, developed in the melting pot of cultures that was Buenos Aires. The word Tango was used at the time to describe various music and dance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5759","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/buffalo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}