{"id":8322,"date":"2025-11-29T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/denver-cory-merrill\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=8322"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:25:35","slug":"carter-rollins-professional-instructor","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/denver-cory-merrill\/member\/carter-rollins-professional-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Rollins &#8211; Professional Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Place of Birth:\u00a0<\/strong>Tennessee (Houston Raised)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite food:<\/strong>\u00a0Sushi (more exotic, the better!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Music:<\/strong>\u00a0Classic Rock\/Pop<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Dance:<\/strong>\u00a0Rumba and Night Club Swing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competition Style:<\/strong>\u00a0American Rhythm and Smooth<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I love most about teaching:<\/strong>\u00a0That look on the student\u2019s face when that one move, they have trouble with just clicks. The joy that radiates from them when they see that, in fact, they can dance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who I admire most and why:\u00a0<\/strong>My Wife! She is my whole world! She helped me face my fears of significant changes, such as changing careers and moving to another state. She gives me hope and courage to take on anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing most people do not know about me:<\/strong>\u00a0I was a winemaker, wine consultant, and wine educator. I left a 10-year career in wine to begin one in dance.<\/p>\n<p>(It\u2019s never too late to start something new)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong>: After 10 years of wine, I met the owner of an independent dance studio in Texas. After she convinced me to come in for a dance lesson, I was immediately bitten by the dance bug. I couldn\u2019t imagine not dancing after that, and began going every week. After she bribed me with a bottle of wine to attend my first competition, I realized dance was my future! She then took a leap of faith in me and hired me as an instructor, for which I will always be thankful. Then I moved to Colorado, where I was lucky enough to continue my passion with Fred Astaire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8326,"template":"","class_list":["post-8322","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/denver-cory-merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/8322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/denver-cory-merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/denver-cory-merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/denver-cory-merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/denver-cory-merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}