{"id":1210,"date":"2014-12-21T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2014-12-21T22:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:09:02","slug":"spares-pairs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Spares &#038; Pairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What has been going on Wednesday nights at Spares &amp; Pairs you ask?\u00a0 Many special and exciting events that make for a wonderful dance experience&#8230; that&#8217;s what!<\/p>\n<p>* Five turkeys were given away at the November 19th Thanksgiving Dance.<\/p>\n<p>* Christmas cards were signed by members and mailed out by the Club Presidents, Ardus and John Vining to our non-dancing friends and shut-ins to wish them all a &#8220;Merry Christmas and Good Cheer!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The annual &#8220;Slightly Used Clothing Sale&#8221; headed up for many years by Jan Facklam, happened once again on December 3 and was another success.<\/p>\n<p>* Graduation of our &#8220;New Beginner&#8221; class was celebrated with cake on December 10 and many of these dancers were sporting their new purchases from the week before.<\/p>\n<p>* The annual &#8220;Jingle Bell Jubilee&#8221; dinner\/dance hosted eleven squares on December 17.<\/p>\n<p>* Dick Rueter called his last S &amp; P dance until he returns again in April from his and Mary&#8217;s &#8220;warm-weather living&#8221; in Mesa, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>* Thanks always to Ray Belanger and Robin Fryman who share the round dance cueing each week. \u00a0(NOTE: ROBIN WILL BE SUBSTITUTING FOR RAY @ S &amp; P DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY WHILE RAY IS TAKING HIS TURN IN FLORIDA WITH A WARMER CLIMATE!)<\/p>\n<p>* Many visitors from &#8220;out and about&#8221; often show up on our dance floor at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Bloomington, Minnesota.\u00a0 These include:<\/p>\n<p>Mavis Johnson from County Line<\/p>\n<p>Rose Ann Shrunk from Peppin, Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p>Cathy Oster from Bloomington Swirlers<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Coney from Wadena Whirlaways<\/p>\n<p>Dee and Ken Scott from Westonka Whirlers and Square Dancing Marketing<\/p>\n<p>* We are always happy to see our &#8220;King and Queen&#8221; Ken and Mary Egan; &#8220;Historians and Vice Presidents&#8221; Al and Cindy Martin; &#8220;Avid Dance Promoters&#8221; Don and Jan Hanson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IF YOU&#8217;RE LOOKING FOR A &#8220;WEEKLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT&#8221; DANCE GET-AWAY&#8230;WE&#8217;D LOVE TO SEE YOUR FACE AS WELL!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has been going on Wednesday nights at Spares &amp; Pairs you ask?\u00a0 Many special and exciting events that make for a wonderful dance experience&#8230; that&#8217;s what! * Five turkeys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squaredancemn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}