{"id":12282,"date":"2020-03-25T00:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12282"},"modified":"2020-03-25T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:07:23","slug":"social-distance-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12282","title":{"rendered":"Solo Social Distance Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"959\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Court-Painter-Up-Up-Away-3-768x959-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12275\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CPdancer-1.jpg 798w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CPdancer-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CPdancer-1-768x962.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 85vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At a&nbsp;press conference Monday, Trudeau teased a multi-million dollar ad campaign involving this prominent yet obscure Canadian figure we \u201ckinda know and kinda trust\u201d in messaging around flattening the COVID-19 curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Court Painter got the ball rolling Monday night from his studio  pulling  moves on those ole dance favourites like the Mashed Potato (started long time ago),the Twist,(Come on, baby) the Light Fandango and the Plague Pirouette Two Step while calling on Canadians to take <em>solo<\/em> <em>social distance dancing <\/em>seriously and stay home to prevent the 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At a&nbsp;press conference Monday, Trudeau teased a multi-million dollar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solo Social Distance Dancing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12290,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions\/12290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}