{"id":1115,"date":"2009-11-27T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2013-04-29T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:49:40","slug":"ballroom-dancing-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/11\/27\/ballroom-dancing-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Think We Can Dance, But We Do It Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every few years, my husband and I take ballroom dancing classes.  We never make much progress, but we <strong>do <\/strong>have a good time.  Except, of course, for the bruised limbs &#8230; and egos.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m celebrating our latest lesson attempt with a two-part limerick:<\/p>\n<p>We Don&#8217;t Think We Can Dance, But We Do It Anyway<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>My husband and I like to dance.<br \/>\nAre we good?  Oh no way &#8212; not a chance.<br \/>\nI am not being humble<br \/>\nIn saying we stumble<br \/>\nAnd often trip over our pants.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re working on rumba and swing.<br \/>\nPlan a do-over class in the spring.<br \/>\nAnd to those who might think<br \/>\nThat we really do stink,<br \/>\nJust be glad we&#8217;re not trying to sing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Dance_Day\">Happy International Dance Day<\/a>! (April 29th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few years, my husband and I take ballroom dancing classes. We never make much progress, but we do have a good time. Except, of course, for the bruised limbs &#8230; and egos. I&#8217;m celebrating our latest lesson attempt with a two-part limerick: We Don&#8217;t Think We Can Dance, But We Do It Anyway By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[839,39,13,122,25,42,2,24,1524,30],"tags":[2090,840,843,844,4998,2261,5012,845,842],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20563,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/20563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}