{"id":53,"date":"2010-06-11T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-12-18T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:10:09","slug":"ballroom-dances-unspoken-by-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Ballroom Dance&#8217;s Unspoken By-Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-reading a favorite XKCD comic, when I thought. The left-cross turn, the most common step in Viennese Waltz, is conterclockwise, and in fact, all ballroom dance is performed counterclockwise.<\/p>\n<p>Are we inadvertantly slowing down the earth&#8217;s rotation by dancing ballroom dance?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cartoon reference:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/162\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Angular Momentum, or how Ballroom dance is leading to longer days (and nights!)\" alt=\"Angular Momentum, or how Ballroom dance is leading to longer days (and nights!)\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/angular_momentum.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-reading a favorite XKCD comic, when I thought. The left-cross turn, the most common step in Viennese Waltz, is conterclockwise, and in fact, all ballroom dance is performed counterclockwise. Are we inadvertantly slowing down the earth&#8217;s rotation by dancing ballroom dance?<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justmichelle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}