{"id":32665,"date":"2018-01-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/learning-a-new-groove\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:30:00","slug":"learning-a-new-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/learning-a-new-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning a new groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karolyn Walden-Deal, 84, above, and others move to the hip-hop music during a Kent 50-plus program in the Expanding Your Mind Series at the Kent Senior Center last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The program featured Shakiah Danielson, below, a self-taught hip-hop instructor and choreographer from Seattle&rsquo;s Paramount Theatre who demonstrated dance moves and offered free mini lessons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I loved it,&rdquo; said Walden-Deal, a 49-year Kent resident, who danced for the USO and for other performing groups during her lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Rex Kinney, a dance education and performance manager for the Education and Community Programs Department at Seattle Theatre Group, also played music and joined the group in dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seniors enjoy dancing to the hip-hop beat <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":32666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32665"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}