{"id":33508,"date":"2011-02-15T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33508"},"modified":"2013-06-22T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T16:45:57","slug":"ultimate-lindy-hop-showdown-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33508","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/myJj0mNNe1Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the fast swing-dancing part of the competition.  It is, to quote my friend Mitchell, sheer liquid joy watching this.  Note to short-attention-spanners: this clip is 7 minutes and 24 seconds long, not 3 minutes.  Don&#8217;t just watch and click away, thinking you&#8217;ve &#8220;gotten it&#8221; in a couple of minutes.  The joy just keeps expanding and expanding and expanding as the time goes on.  Incredible! It approaches the athletic, messy (and yet totally controlled) manic GLEE in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=30586\"> that famous scene from <i>Hellzapoppin&#8217;<\/i><\/a>.  These dancers must be all over black and blue after each competition.  They are THROWING each other around.  Wonderful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fast swing-dancing part of the competition. It is, to quote my friend Mitchell, sheer liquid joy watching this. Note to short-attention-spanners: this clip is 7 minutes and 24 seconds long, not 3 minutes. Don&#8217;t just watch and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508\/revisions\/68733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}