{"id":26020,"date":"2018-05-22T14:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=26020"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:50:49","slug":"cha-cha-cha-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2018\/cha-cha-cha-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Cha Cha Cha&#8230; (Open Thread)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need a new thread. So I thought I would post pictures of me participating in a dance test at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desargedanceworld.com\/\">De Sarge Dance World<\/a> in Naperville where Jim and I have been taking lessons.  We discovered this studio last July and they are great. Below are (a) Devin and me dancing Cha Cha Cha and (b) Jim and me dancing Rhumba.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lucia-Devin-Chacha-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lucia-Devin-Chacha-1-278x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-26021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lucia-Devin-Chacha-1-278x300.png 278w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lucia-Devin-Chacha-1-463x500.png 463w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lucia-Devin-Chacha-1.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/JimAndLu-Rhumba.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/JimAndLu-Rhumba-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-26022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/JimAndLu-Rhumba-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/JimAndLu-Rhumba-333x500.png 333w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/JimAndLu-Rhumba.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Jim was the only guy brave enough to dance with his wife!  <\/p>\n<p>Our history in dancing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took two semesters dancing in the PE department at U of I back in 1984. Learned basic steps for a number of social dances.<\/li>\n<li>About a decade age, we took about 10 weeks of dance lessons at Celebrity Dance World in Downers Grove. Made <I>zero<\/I> progress (in our opinion.)  We decided that was pointless. <\/li>\n<li>Discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/mayihavethisdance.com\/\">&#8220;May I have the Dance&#8221;<\/a> in Chicago. Took lessons on and off for about a year. (Part of the off was when Jim tore the cartilage in his knee.  They were good and we were making progress <I>but<\/i> the drive was too far and, owing to construction or weather, far from relaxing.<\/li>\n<li>Hunted for nearby studio. Found DeSarge. Wow! It is <i>awesome<\/i>. Not only am I improving, but I can see all the other students are too.  I&#8217;m never going to be world class, but Jim and I are more than respectable on the dance floor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now: Back to the regularly scheduled conversation about whatever you like. I bet it won&#8217;t be ballroom dance! Open Thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a new thread. So I thought I would post pictures of me participating in a dance test at De Sarge Dance World in Naperville where Jim and I have been taking lessons. We discovered this studio last July and they are great. Below are (a) Devin and me dancing Cha Cha Cha and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2018\/cha-cha-cha-open-thread\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cha Cha Cha&#8230; (Open Thread)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}