{"id":4560,"date":"2016-12-21T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2016-12-21T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:51:45","slug":"4560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/blog\/holidays\/4560\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis’ The Season For Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FADSThe holiday season is all about dance.<\/p>\n

Those who are part of the Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studio family know this well, from their lessons to the great parties we\u2019ve been having all month.<\/p>\n

But just think about it. Dance is joy, and that\u2019s what the holidays are about.<\/p>\n

It all starts at Thanksgiving with \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas.\u201d The free-form jazzy dances the Peanuts characters engage in (to Vince Guaraldi\u2019s wonderful riffs) illustrate how expressive and powerful dance is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nutcracker\u201d is the classic Christmas ballet. The grace, the beauty, the pageantry of this work also kindles in us a desire to be out on the dance floor and displaying sinuous grace.<\/p>\n

We could go back as far as the oldest film versions of \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d As a young man, Ebenezer Scrooge dances joyously with his fianc\u00e9e at old Fezziwig\u2019s Christmas Eve office party. These are the happy times for the man who would become the world\u2019s Christmas humbug.<\/p>\n

If you can be on your feet and dancing, then the most wonderful time of the year becomes even more wonderful and magical.<\/p>\n

Think of someone who might appreciate this glorious feeling. Consider treating this someone to a dance lesson or two or giving gift certificates so that they may share in this experience. Talk to your instructor about sharing this wonderful passion.<\/p>\n

Your holidays can only be happier if you\u2019re dancing \u2026 dancing at a Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The holiday season is all about dance. Those who are part of the Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studio family know this well, from their lessons to the great parties we\u2019ve been having all month. But just think about it. Dance is joy, and that\u2019s what the holidays are about. It all starts at Thanksgiving with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}