{"id":16088,"date":"2014-04-16T01:14:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16088"},"modified":"2014-04-16T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T09:14:00","slug":"80-years-of-tap-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/80-years-of-tap-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"80 Years of Tap Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sdhalb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sid Hallburn has turned heads for more than 80 years as an incredible tap dancer. At 90, he&#8217;s still performing and receiving rave reviews.\u00a0He loves the crowds and they love him. \u00a0\u00a0First stepping into the spotlight as a 4-year-old, running up on a Los Angeles stage where legendary banjo king Eddie Peabody was playing, the crowd went wild with his impromptu dance routine.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/sid-hallburn.html\">Read more about Sid Hallburn<\/a>&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights in Sid Hallburn&#8217;s 80+ Years of Dance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Ziegfeld Girl, Ethel Meglin and her assistants, taught Sid to tap dance, along with \u00a0youngsters named Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Jackie Cooper, Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney.<\/li>\n<li>Sid served as a backup dancer for Hal Roach Studios, &#8220;The Little Rascals,&#8221; and MGM.<\/li>\n<li>Three lessons Gene Kelley taught Sid\u00a0were: 1. Always be on time; \u00a02. Perform to your best&#8211;no matter how you feel; \u00a0 3. Have fun and put smiles on the audience&#8217;s faces.<\/li>\n<li>Friend Jack LaLanne\u00a0taught Sid: 1. Never give up; \u00a02. Anything is possible; \u00a0 3. You can achieve your dreams if you just keep working at it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Hallburn has turned heads for more than 80 years as an incredible tap dancer. At 90, he&#8217;s still performing and receiving rave reviews.\u00a0He loves the crowds and they love him. \u00a0\u00a0First stepping into the spotlight as a 4-year-old, running up on a Los Angeles stage where legendary banjo king Eddie Peabody was playing, the [&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\/16088"}],"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=16088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}