{"id":915,"date":"2013-05-14T21:53:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/05\/14\/130514-samba\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:05:35","slug":"130514-samba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/05\/14\/130514-samba\/","title":{"rendered":"Samba Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><i>Note: Miss me? I missed you. I&#8217;m trying to ease back into this blogging thing, and the best way to do that is to either (1) steal something from someone else, or (b) repeat myself. Being the overachiever I&#8217;ve deluded myself into thinking I am, I choose to do both. Miss me?<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the influence of <i>Dancing With The Stars<\/i>, or perhaps the impending change of seasons that will usher in beach-like weather (if not actual beaches), but <acronym title=\"My Lovely Bride\">MLB<\/acronym> and I have had an urge to dance ourselves some samba lately. Unfortunately, samba is our weak link; we rarely get a good song from the dance bands around here, so we don&#8217;t practice it, and so we frankly suck at it. But that&#8217;s gonna change, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/03\/130320-themavericks.html\">The Mavericks<\/a> are making it impossible <i>not<\/i> to samba, thanks to this song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-vxb5gWifI?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, can you resist that beat and the fun they have with that song? Neither can we. And so instead of watching the&nbsp;<i>DWTS<\/i> results show, we were practicing boto fogas, traveling voltas, and samba maxixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Need another example of a samba from a more familiar genre (assuming you&#8217;re a Texan, of course)? Clay Walker is happy to oblige:<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5VW8rsNHq0w?si=2YUMgdJg2mEPQdOe\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Miss me? I missed you. I&#8217;m trying to ease back into this blogging thing, and the best way to do that is to either (1) steal something from someone else, or (b) repeat myself. Being the overachiever I&#8217;ve deluded myself into thinking I am, I choose to do both. Miss me? Maybe it&#8217;s the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/05\/14\/130514-samba\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samba Ambitions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-ballroom","category-music","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\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}