{"id":963,"date":"2025-11-14T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:33:52","slug":"dancing-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Day 0: Dancing @ Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6403-1024x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6403-1024x361.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6403-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6403-768x271.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6403-1536x542.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6403.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A little background: back in April, Diane convinced me to try a free dance lesson, mainly so that we might do a little more than sit and watch and drink at her nephew Kevin and Natalie\u2018s upcoming wedding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much to my chagrin and surprise, I <em>can<\/em> be taught how to dance. Never had I ever thought. And that free lesson? Yeah, gateway drug. Our instructor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2leftfeetcure\/\">Magdalena Piekarz<\/a>, who was #4 in the world of competitive dance and our teacher, had us confidently doing the basic steps for the Bachata on day one. Might have even touched on the Hustle, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Convinced that hey, we can do this, we got 5 more lessons and a half dozen basic dances under our belt before the wedding. And had more fun than we\u2019ve ever had on a night out. We\u2019ve continued taking classes two, sometimes three or four times a week ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, Magdalena saw that we were at a point in our dance journey where we might enjoy and grow from a group trip with other couples.  Western Caribbean cruise, on a brand new ship? Ah, yes please!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here we are, on embarkation eve of a whole new travel experience. Bring it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little background: back in April, Diane convinced me to try a free dance lesson, mainly so that we might do a little more than sit and watch and drink at her nephew Kevin and Natalie\u2018s upcoming wedding. Much to my chagrin and surprise, I can be taught how to dance. Never had I ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-dance-cruise-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}