{"id":168,"date":"2017-02-18T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T01:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2017-02-18T20:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T01:42:24","slug":"american-latin-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/168","title":{"rendered":"American Latin Champions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day when my wife and I were ballroom dancing and doing amateur comps I had the pleasure of having both<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Meredith\"> Tony <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanie_LaPatin\">Melanie<\/a> coach me. Great dancers and great people. They are now retired from competition and have ben for some time.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy tonight&#8217;s performances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ad5qjlfihLI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLldbpGHe0CQZJFjEZlQJdlVejpxRJHSUj\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lesOhLGa_7s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day when my wife and I were ballroom dancing and doing amateur comps I had the pleasure of having both Tony and Melanie coach me. Great dancers and great people. They are now retired from competition and have ben for some time. We hope you enjoy tonight&#8217;s performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-dance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-2I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":180,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/180","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":0},"title":"Remembering R.E.M. &#8230;","author":"Les","date":"February 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Remembering the 80's and 90's with\u00a0the\u00a0great alterative rock group\u00a0R.E.M. 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