{"id":9470,"date":"2020-06-03T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T09:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alluringcreations.co.za\/wp\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2021-10-17T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T13:11:04","slug":"dirty-dancing-singing-butler-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alluringcreations.co.za\/wp\/dirty-dancing-singing-butler-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"On Dirty Dancing, The Singing Butler &#038; Writing, Guest Post for &#8216;Swirl and Thread&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a chat about a certain painting that led to &#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlandthread.com\/guestpost-patricia-furstenberg-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">On Dirty Dancing, The Singing Butler and Writing<\/a>&#8216; Guest Post I had the pleasure of writing for lovely Mair\u00e9ad blogging at &#8216;Swirl and Thread.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have great admiration for Mair\u00e9ad, both as a blogger and as a mother. So writing this piece for her, coming from the heart, was special. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a timeless subject, and I invite you to go over and read it. I talk about music, art and, you guessed it, writing. But mostly about dancing. So put on your dancing shoes and go see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlandthread.com\/guestpost-patricia-furstenberg-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">what everyone is talking about<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Today it is with great pleasure to welcome back writer Patricia Furstenberg with a gorgeous post about how writing has helped her to discover her inner dance. Patricia and myself, through coincidence, discovered recently that we both share a passion for a particular painting thus inspiring her to write this piece. I really hope you enjoy.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/Today it is with great pleasure to welcome back writer Patricia Furstenberg with a gorgeous post about how writing has helped her to discover her inner dance. Patricia and myself, through coincidence, discovered recently that we both share a passion for a particular painting thus inspiring her to write this piece. I really hope you enjoy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read on<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put on your dancing shoes and read what everyone is talking about: &#8216;On Dirty Dancing, The Singing Butler and Writing&#8217; Guest Post for lovely Mair\u00e9ad, &#8216;Swirl and Thread.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It was a chat about a certain painting that led to 'On Dirty Dancing, The Singing Butler and Writing' Guest Post for lovely Mair\u00e9ad bogging at 'Swirl and Thread.' #IB6 .@sa_artists #movie #art #music #memories #amwriting ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1342,2229,2030],"tags":[4099,4101,4103,4102,4100],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-silent-heroes","category-symbolism","tag-dirty-dancing","tag-jack-vettriano","tag-symbolism-in-art","tag-symbolism-in-dirty-dancing","tag-the-singing-butler"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alluringcreations.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ohrwurm-jack-vettriano-the-singing-butler_a-G-10611785-0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1578,"url":"https:\/\/alluringcreations.co.za\/wp\/9th-day-christmas-haiku-ladiesdancing-patfurstenberg\/","url_meta":{"origin":9470,"position":0},"title":"9th Day of Christmas Haiku, Nine Ladies Dancing","author":"Patricia Furstenberg","date":"02\/01\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"9th Day of Christmas Haiku, Nine Ladies Dancing! 9th Day of Christmas, Nine Ladies Dancing Nine gowns a\u2019 dancing One, two, spin; three, four and round. 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