{"id":2700,"date":"2017-11-23T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T05:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2017-11-23T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T05:31:29","slug":"song-n-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"Song n Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a performer sing old popular and Broadway songs a couple days ago, and knew some of them. It reminded me that I may not have shared that part of my life\u2014that I made up song books, held song fests, sang songs for our Sun City Follies when we lived in Texas, programmed song fests at psychodrama conferences over the&#160; years,&#160; and in general promoted singing. Now that role has been on ice for almost a year and hearing some today reminded me\u2014hey, I know those songs! It shouldn\u2019t be minimized, this facet of my personality. You can access these songs on my website, I think\u2014or a small number of them. I need to post my collection of camp songs, too!<\/p>\n<p>As for dancing, I\u2019ve enjoyed square, round, folk, and ballroom dance\u2014a LOT of dancing. Yum. The other night, I was reminded of ballroom dancing.&#160; My wife and I went out dancing last night and I realized (watching the others) that I know a surprising number of ballroom dances\u2014though not Argentine-style tango. (We know American-style.) Mambo, Cha-Cha, Rhumba, Merengue also. Very 1950s, though a little more than a year ago we were considered quite good by our peers at the Sun City Ballroom Dance club. I\u2019m kinda rusty and tire a bit easier now, but it was good to check out our nearby dance spots.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve lived a life that\u2019s full&#8230;.true for us, reflecting on Frank Sinatra\u2019s theme song, <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Frank-sinatra-my-way-lyrics\">\u201cMy Way.\u201d<\/a> Indeed, many parts of that in retrospect apply to me, though I was far less confident than he for much of my life. I am in my own estimation far less heroic, but on taking stock I realize I compared myself with very heroic people (and I suffered by comparison.) Then I asserted myself and affirmed my existence, however humble, as part of the becoming-ness of God, which, now that I see the words, is a lot prouder than I really think I am, because everyone and everything is also part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a performer sing old popular and Broadway songs a couple days ago, and knew some of them. It reminded me that I may not have shared that part of my life\u2014that I made up song books, held song fests, sang songs for our Sun City Follies when we lived in Texas, programmed song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-favoritethings","category-play-and-spontaneity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}