{"id":1662,"date":"2009-06-08T00:24:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2009-06-08T00:24:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T07:24:31","slug":"a-case-of-the-human-condition-showing-up-for-the-high-school-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-showing-up-for-the-high-school-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case of the Human Condition: Swing, Lindy, Fast Dancing &#8212; My Kind of Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/p>\n<p>Jon and I spent this past weekend at his high school reunion in Southern California. I hope to be posting some notes later today or tomorrow . . . or . . . later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, to keep you entertained, we&#8217;ll plug you in to some\u00a0YouTube music and dancing\u00a0from the glorious era that was our adolescence.<\/p>\n<p>At my favorite site, some truly\u00a0amazing dancers work out at\u00a0a 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=myJj0mNNe1Y\">fast dance contest<\/a>.\u00a0 The dancing is terrific, as you&#8217;ll see, but where are the demure plaid skirts, loafers and crew neck sweaters we used to wear at my high school?<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hO-aoG8NEOw\">Tokyo Fifties dance club<\/a>, the dancing was more amusing than amazing. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_1689\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1689\" href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?attachment_id=1689\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1689    \" title=\"birmingham-michigan-high-school-kids-plaid-skirts-1957  \" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/birmingham-kids-in-plaid-skirts-2009-06-08.jpg\" alt=\"Plaid skirts, loafers, crew neck sweater, freshly ironed shirts -- these Birmingham (Michigan) High School girls knew what to wear to a sock hop\" width=\"290\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Plaid skirts, loafers, crew neck sweaters, starched shirts &#8212; these Birmingham (Michigan) High School girls knew what to wear to a sock hop. 1957 The Highlander<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>If you went to Birmingham High, maybe you can help me identify these four kids. Click on the photo for some clues.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon and I spent the weekend at his high school reunion in Southern California. Check out these youtube videos of the dancing from the era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[252,253,254,255,256,257,258],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-birmingham-michigan-high-school","tag-fast-dancing","tag-high-school-reunion","tag-lindy","tag-loafers","tag-plaid-skirts","tag-swing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}