Tonight’s our public debut in the wacky world of ballroom dancing as we’re attending our first dance sponsored by the Permian Basin Ballroom Dance Society. <\/p>\n
This is a formal affair, or as formal as it gets in Midland, Texas, US of A. We understand that there may be a few guys wearing tuxes, and some women in formals, although coat and tie are the nominal requirements for the men. MLB<\/acronym> has a new dress and shoes (Say, why is it that whenever we get involved in things like this, the invariable outcome is significant enhancement to her wardrobe, with accompanying significant depletion of our bank account?) while I have, well, neither, not that I’m interested in having the former or need the latter. In fact, I’m fixing to pull out the 20+ year old suit, which may well be back in style…somewhere. <\/p>\n Anyhow, we’re a little nervous about the prospect, although we’re encouraged that our dance instructor will be there and she’s promised to provide little tips (such as, “this is a rumba” or “this is a mambo” or “never, ever<\/em> do that again!”), and a few of our other beginner classmates will also be present. We’ve been assured that knowing the basics is plenty good enough to feel at home, but, of course, seeing is believing. At the very least, the band is supposed to be excellent and so we’ll enjoy the music. <\/p>\n Now, all we have to do is go back through seven instructional DVDs for last minute practice. T – A – NGOoooo, T – A – NGOoooo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight’s our public debut in the wacky world of ballroom dancing as we’re attending our first dance sponsored by the Permian Basin Ballroom Dance Society. This is a formal affair, or as formal as it gets in Midland, Texas, US of A. We understand that there may be a few guys wearing tuxes, and some… Continue reading Going to the Big Dance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-ballroom","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8639,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/8639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}