{"id":693,"date":"2012-09-09T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2012-09-09T19:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:25:26","slug":"singin-and-dancin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Singin&rsquo; and Dancin&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m having a good ol\u2019 time in my community. We dance several types of dancing&#8212;square and round, folk (I probably know over 1ooo dances and in the last 56 years done 1000 or more others), and ballroom dances. For over 14 years I\u2019ve sung in our Sun City Texas chorus and this fall we\u2019re rehearsing&#8212;all hundred or so of us&#8212;for the Christmas concert. A pal sent me this picture that mixes Edvard Munch\u2019s \u201cthe scream\u201d with a passage of our version of Walkin\u2019 in a Winter Wonderland. There\u2019s a little passage where we all take off from the part that goes, \u201cIn the meadow we can build a snowman,\u201d and does a little riff: We\u2019re gonna build a snowman, but don\u2019t knock him down\u2026 and the music suggests the poor structure\u2019s toppling over as we cry out in dismay, \u201cYou better not, you better, not, don\u2019t knock him dow\u2026\u2026\u2026..n.&#160; Cute!<a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/912singersl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"912singersl\" border=\"0\" alt=\"912singersl\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/912singersl_thumb.jpg\" width=\"542\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m having a good ol\u2019 time in my community. We dance several types of dancing&#8212;square and round, folk (I probably know over 1ooo dances and in the last 56 years done 1000 or more others), and ballroom dances. For over 14 years I\u2019ve sung in our Sun City Texas chorus and this fall we\u2019re rehearsing&#8212;all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-play-and-spontaneity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}