{"id":15441,"date":"2014-02-16T03:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15441"},"modified":"2014-02-16T17:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:17:38","slug":"californias-first-scottish-highland-dance-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/californias-first-scottish-highland-dance-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s First  Scottish Highland Dance World Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/kayleef.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictures of 15-year-old Kaylee Finnegan left to right: \u00a0with dancer friends Clementyne Vega, 16, and Katherine Arthur, 15; at the Queen Mary competing; with the\u00a0Lawrie Challenge Trophy and title of World Champion Scottish Highland Dancer in Dunoon, Scotland last summer; and dancing in Dunoon accompanied by bagpipes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;To get to the top requires a mental game of mind over matter. You have to believe in yourself and not focus on anything else.&#8221; &#8211; Kaylee Finnegan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/kaylee-finnegan.html\"><strong>Read more about Kaylee Finnegan, \u00a0World Champ<\/strong><\/a>! <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kaylee began dancing at the age of 3 with her Scotland born mother who was a competitive dancer and \u00a0now teaches dance lessons.<\/li>\n<li>Kaylee competed in her first event at the age of 6.<\/li>\n<li>Highland Fling requires 192 consecutive jumps on the balls of your feet, says Kaylee&#8230;&#8221;It\u2019s like sprinting a mile in up to 10 pounds of wool kilt.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kaylee practices every day, takes dance lessons, attends high school and competes in dance events at Scottish Festivals<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>Here are several\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-scottish-festivals.html\">Scottish Festivals in California<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of 15-year-old Kaylee Finnegan left to right: \u00a0with dancer friends Clementyne Vega, 16, and Katherine Arthur, 15; at the Queen Mary competing; with the\u00a0Lawrie Challenge Trophy and title of World Champion Scottish Highland Dancer in Dunoon, Scotland last summer; and dancing in Dunoon accompanied by bagpipes. &#8220;To get to the top requires a mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}