{"id":634,"date":"2010-10-04T05:47:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T12:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2011-06-14T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:58:19","slug":"conquering-my-fear-of-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/conquering-my-fear-of-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Conquering my fear of dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo alignleft\"><img src=\"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/images\/uploaded\/salsa-dancing.jpg\" alt=\"Salsa Dancing - Dance All Night\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Salsa Dance &#8211; &#8220;Dance All Night&#8221; photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tedsali\/2751605105\/\">ted.sali<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Something I have never liked doing, nor been any good at, is dancing. Any time I go anywhere where there is dancing, whether it&#8217;s a wedding or a nightclub, I always get a little pit in my stomach, wondering if I will inevitably get dragged onto the dance floor. I have other irrational fears like this, but finally I am working on overcoming this one.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, just this past week I started my first lesson of salsa dance classes. It was hard for me to make the decision to sign up, but I finally did it. I have actually considered it several times over the past few years, but fear always got the best of me. Finally this time I just decided to make it happen. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it wasn&#8217;t all my own doing, in a way it seems that fate intervened. Around the same time the idea was surfacing again, I was informed that a dance studio was opening right down the street from me. So I went ahead and contacted them, asking what would be the best option for someone like me; someone with two left feet and very little confidence when it comes to moving my body on a dance floor. So beginners progressive salsa it is. $60 for six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to report that the first class was a success. Walking in I was <i>extremely<\/i> nervous and apprehensive, but it turned out very well. I had a good time and felt like I wasn&#8217;t as bad as I had assumed that I would be. More updates will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo excerpt alignleft\"><img src=\"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/images\/uploaded\/salsa-dancing.jpg\" alt=\"Salsa Dancing - Dance All Night\" class=\"size-excerpt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Salsa Dance &#8211; &#8220;Dance All Night&#8221; photo by ted.sali<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Something I have never liked doing, nor been any good at, is dancing. Any time I go anywhere where there is dancing, whether it&#8217;s a wedding or a nightclub, I always get a little pit in my stomach, wondering if I will inevitably get dragged onto the dance floor. I have other irrational fears like this, but finally I am working on overcoming this one.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, just this past week I started my first lesson of salsa dance classes. It was hard for me to make the decision to sign up, but I finally did it. I have actually considered it several times over the past few years, but fear always got the best of me. Finally this time I just decided to make it happen. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it wasn&#8217;t all my [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/conquering-my-fear-of-dancing\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152],"tags":[200,67,47,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}