{"id":2312,"date":"2018-11-16T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2018-11-16T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:15:15","slug":"special-thanksgiving-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/special-thanksgiving-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Thanksgiving Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that<span>\u00a0our very own <strong>Anneliece Velasco and Kurt Roberts<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0are dancing in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day parade<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>with other FADS couples from around the country! Each region of FADS will be sending two professional couples to perform in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2018\/11\/macys-2018-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The annual\u00a0<b>Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/b>\u00a0in\u00a0New York City, the world&#8217;s largest\u00a0parade,\u00a0is presented by the U.S.-based\u00a0department store\u00a0chain\u00a0Macy&#8217;s. The tradition started in 1924,<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">\u00a0<\/span>tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States with\u00a0America&#8217;s Thanksgiving Parade\u00a0in\u00a0Detroit. The three-hour Macy&#8217;s event is held in\u00a0Manhattan\u00a0starting at 9:00\u00a0a.m.\u00a0Eastern Standard Time\u00a0on\u00a0Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on\u00a0NBC\u00a0since 1952.<\/p>\n<p>We will certainly be in front of the TV to watch the parade and look for all of the FADS representatives, especially Anneliece and Kurt.<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Please wish them a good trip when you see them<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>and let them know how proud you are of them!<\/p>\n<p><span>Ring in your holiday with the 91st Annual Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Fred Astaire Dance Studios!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that\u00a0our very own Anneliece Velasco and Kurt Roberts\u00a0are dancing in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day parade\u00a0with other FADS couples from around the country! Each region of FADS will be sending two professional couples to perform in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The annual\u00a0Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade\u00a0in\u00a0New York City, the world&#8217;s largest\u00a0parade,\u00a0is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/smithtown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}