{"id":442,"date":"2014-08-27T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/27\/grown-ups-doing-kid-things"},"modified":"2014-08-27T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:54:00","slug":"grown-ups-doing-kid-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2014\/08\/27\/grown-ups-doing-kid-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Grown-ups doing kid things!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is great about helping me get\u00a0out away from the kids for some fun. \u00a0This week Amanda and I ventured to a tap class.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve wanted to learn to tap since college. \u00a0Now seemed like the perfect time to try. \u00a0We did some research and decided to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapsdancedenver.com\/\">TAPS professional studio<\/a> in the Baker neighborhood of Denver. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was <i>super<\/i>\u00a0fun. \u00a0Also super hard. \u00a0Tap is very much the opposite of everything I learned in ballet and modern.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t felt so inept about dance in decades. \u00a0I can&#8217;t wait to go to class again!\u00a0 Maybe I can sneak some pictures next time.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last night I procured a babysitter for a date to the Alamo. \u00a0They were showing The Monster Squad with special guest: star of the movie Andre Gower.\u00a0 I&#8217;d seen Monster Squad some years ago, probably at a Halloween movie  marathon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a horrible 80s kids movie.\u00a0 The famous line that every  quotes (and yelled along in the theater) is &#8220;Wolfman&#8217;s got nards!&#8221;\u00a0 That  about sums up the film.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the trailer if you are interested in learning more:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TeZs0B0mjXY?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span> <br \/>I was not going to attend with friends until Trevor sent this reply to Brian&#8217;s invitation, that I hope he won&#8217;t mind me re-printing:<\/p>\n<p><i>The City Market in Grand Junction used to have a video store. This video  store was where I&#8217;d spend most of my time if I got pulled into grocery  shopping. It wasn&#8217;t particularly large, so I&#8217;m not exaggerating when I  say I think I saw everything that was worthwhile in that store, and knew  where the videos were stocked better than the clerks. The <span class=\"il\">Monster<\/span> Squad was my favorite. From the box alone it had everything that would  appeal to an eight year old boy: Wolfman, Frankenstein&#8217;s <span class=\"il\">Monster<\/span>,  Dracula and a group of kids that saves the day. The problem was very  often the video was absent behind that oh so alluring case.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>I would only learn about 6 years later why. Brian&#8217;s Mom  worked in the pharmacy there. And anytime I wasn&#8217;t hoarding that VHS, he  was.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>I&#8217;m in.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m a sucker for nostalgia so that convinced me.\u00a0 Well, that and some time out with my husband.\u00a0 And an <a href=\"http:\/\/drafthouse.com\/denver\/littleton\">Alamo experience<\/a>. And a Royale with Cheese.\u00a0 And a Coke Zero as big as my head.\u00a0 And free cookies.\u00a0 They gave theater members free, freshly baked, gooey cookies.\u00a0 Mmmmm . . .<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now you know why this meeting was sort of sweet.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Lw4zJv9mYPg\/U_jAtgECIeI\/AAAAAAAAI-A\/exSNLeIB1t0\/s640\/blogger-image-1557595861.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Lw4zJv9mYPg\/U_jAtgECIeI\/AAAAAAAAI-A\/exSNLeIB1t0\/s400\/blogger-image-1557595861.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--Fudz4nbFu8\/U_jApuXoJWI\/AAAAAAAAI9w\/xWQFJhAvw9M\/s640\/blogger-image--2022346704.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--Fudz4nbFu8\/U_jApuXoJWI\/AAAAAAAAI9w\/xWQFJhAvw9M\/s400\/blogger-image--2022346704.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Thumbs up from Van Helsing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/37.media.tumblr.com\/a76b77cbe9b690382e88d5d732c7160e\/tumblr_muy4byk49V1rdutw3o1_400.gif\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/37.media.tumblr.com\/a76b77cbe9b690382e88d5d732c7160e\/tumblr_muy4byk49V1rdutw3o1_400.gif\" height=\"136\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is great about helping me get\u00a0out away from the kids for some fun. \u00a0This week Amanda and I ventured to a tap class.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve wanted to learn to tap since college. \u00a0Now seemed like the perfect time to try. \u00a0We did some research and decided to try TAPS professional studio in the Baker neighborhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}