{"id":573896892,"date":"2024-05-09T23:59:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T03:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896892"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:20:47","slug":"those-dance-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/05\/09\/those-dance-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Those dance steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the final scores finally tabulated, everything cross-referenced and cross-checked. My spreadsheets agree, and my final grades were finally submitted. It&#8217;s a nice feeling. <\/p>\n<p>We celebrated by going to &#8230;  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerdelaware.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafemezzanotte.net\/\">Cafe Mezzanotte<\/a> was our dinner selection, just a few blocks from our ultimate destination in Wilmington. I had the hot dog. Actually the fettuccini alla panna. It was quite tasty. I&#8217;d go back there, even if we did lower the average age of the the restaurant by a solid 30 years. <\/p>\n<p>The big fun of the night were two historic Motown acts guaranteed to make you smile. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x8ylk46\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" allowfullscreen title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" > <\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a surviving member of the original Four Tops, though Duke Fakir stopped touring in 2022 &#8212; at 86 or so. Otis Williams is the last surviving, and still performing, member of The Temptations. He&#8217;s a spry 82. They&#8217;re essentially legacy acts at this point, and they are guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Mostly legacy acts, anyway. The Temps put out a new record in 2022, &#8220;Temptations 60.&#8221; It celebrates the 60th anniversary of the group. I believe that was their 43rd album. Two singles were released came of it, numbers 108 and 109 in their long and storied history. One of them a collaboration with the equally timeless Smokey Robinson. They sang that one tonight, but without Robinson. It&#8217;s a good tune. My mother bought the CD. I&#8217;ll probably pick it up one day, too. <\/p>\n<p>We only knew about this show because I saw it in the theatre&#8217;s program from another event last year. I&#8217;m glad we were able to make this work. It was a lovely evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the final scores finally tabulated, everything cross-referenced and cross-checked. My spreadsheets agree, and my final grades were finally submitted. It&#8217;s a nice feeling. We celebrated by going to &#8230; Cafe Mezzanotte was our dinner selection, just a few blocks from our ultimate destination in Wilmington. I had the hot dog. Actually the fettuccini alla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573896892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-music","category-thursday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573896892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573896894,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896892\/revisions\/573896894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573896892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573896892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573896892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}