{"id":146,"date":"2009-05-20T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-05-24T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T15:41:43","slug":"dancing-by-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Dancing by the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my co-worker (and general emergency translation contact) Susy, we found dancing in Beijing!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/redowa\/BeijingWanders#5339394674239616658\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"do some hustle\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_51YZD-OiI1k\/ShlXKrmqNpI\/AAAAAAAAUbY\/Exy9JxEzCxc\/s512\/SANY0030-1.JPG\" alt=\"dancing by Hou Hai lake\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">dancing by Hou Hai lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was basically like the Pavillion (older asian couples doing ballroom and hustle), but outside and by a <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/redowa\/BeijingWanders#5339394358082913922\" target=\"_blank\">lake<\/a>&#8230;and with occasional bollywood songs. And <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/redowa\/BeijingWanders#5339394801976344386\" target=\"_blank\">line dancing<\/a>! No line of dance, though. (Makes for chaotic <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/redowa\/BeijingWanders#5339394713613630226\" target=\"_blank\">waltzes<\/a> and very compressed <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/redowa\/BeijingWanders#5339394660889674050\" target=\"_blank\">schottische<\/a>.) Fun fun fun! We will be back to terrorize the locals with our craaaazy west coast swing some more, especially when Leslie and Laura get here.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salsabeijing.com\/2009\/05\/11\/beijing-salsa-dance-event-latino-night-baila-y-goza-every-thursday\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Night<\/a> at Block 8&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my co-worker (and general emergency translation contact) Susy, we found dancing in Beijing! \u00a0 \u00a0 It was basically like the Pavillion (older asian couples doing ballroom and hustle), but outside and by a lake&#8230;and with occasional bollywood songs. And line dancing! No line of dance, though. (Makes for chaotic waltzes and very compressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendrome.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}