{"id":4978,"date":"2018-03-27T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2018-03-27T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:45:29","slug":"saturday-night-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4978","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cast your mind back to 1978. James Callaghan is UK prime minister, and 1.5 million people are unemployed. I had a dreary job in an office in Walsall, but we did our best to have a bit of fun. As a cocky 19 year-old I liked to have a dance whenever one our local pubs had a disco night, and when Saturday Night Fever arrived at the cinema the number of these events increased tenfold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it one of the girls at my office was also a dance instructor, and a group of us would spend our lunchtimes learning the moves that we&#8217;d seen in the film. While I was never going to be John Travolta, I never missed a session and I reckoned I was pretty handy.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward forty years, and I am sat in my favourite spot at the bar in the Sunstar last night when I hear Steve and Colin calling my name. They&#8217;re playing a slow number and I must dance with Val as it was our anniversary a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably a good thing that I can&#8217;t remember how to dance the &#8216;Manhattan Bus Stop Shuffle&#8217; from Saturday Night Fever, and in any case Duo Centrale don&#8217;t play any Bee Gees numbers, but we had our annual dance and very nice it was too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180327_1615031679928794.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180327_1615031679928794.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4977 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180327_1615031679928794.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180327_1615031679928794-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180327_1615031679928794-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180327_1615031679928794-1024x717.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast your mind back to 1978. James Callaghan is UK prime minister, and 1.5 million people are unemployed. I had a dreary job in an office in Walsall, but we did our best to have a bit of fun. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4978\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}