{"id":846,"date":"2015-07-10T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/?p=846"},"modified":"2015-07-10T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:13:52","slug":"a-little-bit-of-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/blog\/uncategorized\/a-little-bit-of-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of Swing\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/199\/2015\/07\/swing-night-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"swing-night\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2052\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 15px 0 0\" \/>The history of swing begins with the history of Lindy Hop. Lindy Hop originated in the late 1920\u2019s in New York and reached huge popularity in the 30\u2019s and 40\u2019s. It has its roots in the Charleston and Foxtrot and was danced to what was at a time called Jazz music. The term swing refers to a group of dances that were developed in the 20\u2019s, 30\u2019s and 40\u2019s of the last century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Swing grew out of the African American communities. With the help of American soldiers during the WWII, it spread all around the world. Today, it is one of the most popular dances enjoyed worldwide. You can dance to a wide variety of music styles, from country and pop to rock and roll. As music changed from the 1920\u2019s so did the dances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As its name implies, it is known for its swings, lifts and spins. Swing is a very energetic and unique dance. It can be simple or complex, but you can be assured it\u2019s always fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of swing begins with the history of Lindy Hop. Lindy Hop originated in the late 1920\u2019s in New York and reached huge popularity in the 30\u2019s and 40\u2019s. It has its roots in the Charleston and Foxtrot and was danced to what was at a time called Jazz music. The term swing refers [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}