{"id":1,"date":"2015-01-17T18:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helabela7.co.za\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-02-06T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:42:03","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Abba &#8211; The Early Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine&#8230;&#8221; ~Abba<\/p>\n<p>Even as I type this, I can&#8217;t help but sing! This song brings back so many memories of the little girl who would put on a full circle skirt and turn the music up. Alive with possibility and quite fearless I might add, I would put on music and dance in t<\/p>\n<p>he lounge almost every opportunity I got. Our lounge is sunken and the dining room floor seemed like a perfect stage for me. What seemed to be a harmless music and dance session then seemed to be what set the tone for me for the road ahead. I always knew I loved dancing, I just never knew that that little girl would be the one performing for audiences of people, sharing little pieces of my soul through the beauty of belly dance.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we take time to think about how so much of our youth sets the tone for the dreams we have as young teenager and adults. I&#8217;m glad I got to be the dancing queen I was when I was little, I have seen that dreams do come true \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>-Hela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine&#8230;&#8221; ~Abba Even as I type this, I can&#8217;t help but sing! This song brings back so many memories of the little girl<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/?p=1\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abba &#8211; The Early Days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helabela.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}