{"id":1804,"date":"2015-06-20T22:38:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T02:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:26:07","slug":"first-dance-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"My Disco Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1810\" title=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Image-656x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Image-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Image-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Image.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>The girls first recital is now in the history books. \u00a0I was so nervous about it for the last few weeks\u2026.I had seen the girls rehearsal a few times the past few weeks and at times the girls would pay attention to the teacher but then other times, Avery especially, would not even be looking at the teacher. \u00a0Well during the whole one minute and forty five second performance today, all I could do was laugh. \u00a0Avery actually followed pretty well. \u00a0Emerson had severe stage fright. \u00a0She stared out at the audience not looking at the teacher once and practically did the same first move from start to finish. \u00a0Emerson generally really got into the routine so I really hadn&#8217;t expected her to freeze, but she did. \u00a0After the performance, she really didn&#8217;t want to talk to anyone and you could tell she was upset but didn&#8217;t want to talk about it. \u00a0Anyway, I captured a video of the dance on my phone during rehearsals and as much as we wanted to have this performance, I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to shell out another $40 for the video. \u00a0<\/em><em>And here is little Harper who was mesmerized by the performances!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1811\" title=\"photoh\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photoh-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photoh-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photoh-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photoh.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girls first recital is now in the history books. \u00a0I was so nervous about it for the last few weeks\u2026.I had seen the girls rehearsal a few times the past few weeks and at times the girls would pay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}