{"id":154,"date":"2024-10-29T20:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2024-10-29T20:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:19:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/293297312_385449470352309_8996272214218971103_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/293297312_385449470352309_8996272214218971103_n.jpg 479w, https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/293297312_385449470352309_8996272214218971103_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/293297312_385449470352309_8996272214218971103_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I fell in love with dance by the age of five and took classes in ballet through college. In high school, I studied both ballet and jazz with the Bonnie Haney Dance Company in the Fargo, North Dakota area.\u00a0Later, I took swing dance lessons weekly, for years, at both the Wabasha Street Caves and the Tapestry Folkdance Center in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and belly dance classes at The Cassandra School in Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I\u2019ve been certified in Zumba since 2010 and in Belly Dance Fitness since 2013.\u00a0I&#8217;ve since picked up Zumba Kids and Zumba Gold certifications, as well. When I moved to Macomb, I was thrilled to join the belly dance troupe, Banat Casablanca, and enjoyed many Belly Fit classes with Anne Dixon when Anne was teaching at Free Range.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am now teaching Zumba Gold and Belly Dance classes at Free Range and am involved in the Nisa Bahija (Joyful Ladies) dance troupe, which has recently formed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love with dance by the age of five and took classes in ballet through college. In high school, I studied both ballet and jazz with the Bonnie Haney Dance Company in the Fargo, North Dakota area.\u00a0Later, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayazahra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}