{"id":293,"date":"2005-09-12T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T23:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2005-09-19T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T18:36:21","slug":"shall-we-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/shall-we-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall We Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this list in response to watching the movie Shall We Dance with Richard Gere on my way to San Francisco in February 2005. I have only now gotten around to transcribing it. I think that it is a good list.<\/p>\n<p>What I learned from Shall We Dance<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow your dreams, even when they take you in unexpected and even threatening directions. Keep hold of your foundations and things are bound to go well.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid or ashamed. There will be times when you -are- afraid or ashamed. Let the natural course of events overcome.<\/li>\n<li>When you see a chance for happiness, take it.<\/li>\n<li>Be proud of what you love.<\/li>\n<li>Allow new passions in your life.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let your fears control you. Don&#8217;t sweat it when it does. It happens to us all.<\/li>\n<li>I cry often during movies in which people dance.<\/li>\n<li>The substance of what epassions you is much less important than the spirit and energy that is put into it. The spirit -is- the substance, and that will show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this list in response to watching the movie Shall We Dance with Richard Gere on my way to San Francisco in February 2005. I have only now gotten around to transcribing it. I think that it is a good list. What I learned from Shall We Dance Follow your dreams, even when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}