{"id":1384,"date":"2010-01-19T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2010-01-19T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:44:10","slug":"us-nationals-the-dance-section-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/us-nationals-the-dance-section-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"US Nationals: the dance section starts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane and I are lazing today during the compulsory novice bits: the mandatory repetition of the same dance for every couple. A very good exposure of strengths and weaknesses of the couples, but not for the faint-hearted&#8230;or people getting sore knees from sitting for hour with knees unable to flex. Jane&#8217;s having knee trouble; I&#8217;m starting to; and we have to lay out today and let the joints recover. Nationals-watching should be named an Olympic event. Can you tolerate sitting in a cramped seat for 10 hours a go? Even in airline seats you get to stretch your legs a bit. Not in an arena.<\/p>\n<p>The young men upcoming are going to be a joy to watch. A very small 10 year old with the moves of an experienced\u00a0pro\u00a0won over older competitors, and a 12 year old within a few points of him was second: the 10 year old did Peter and the Wolf, playing all parts except the cat&#8230;as he put it; and still won, even with 2 falls. (When you&#8217;re young, lightweight so your skates don&#8217;t bite as deep, and over-adrenalined, you make mistakes in competition you didn&#8217;t make in warmup.) Charming kid, very well-spoken and cute as the proverbial button. Jane will have details\u00a0on her blog. The silver kid was very, very good. And if those two go &#8216;up&#8217; together, it&#8217;s going to be an interesting number of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane and I are lazing today during the compulsory novice bits: the mandatory repetition of the same dance for every couple. A very good exposure of strengths and weaknesses of the couples, but not for the faint-hearted&#8230;or people getting sore knees from sitting for hour with knees unable to flex. Jane&#8217;s having knee trouble; I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}