{"id":4699,"date":"2010-05-18T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/18\/steelykid-dance-party\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T11:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:30:24","slug":"steelykid-dance-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/18\/steelykid-dance-party\/","title":{"rendered":"SteelyKid Dance Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have copy edits for an Anglicised edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> to review, lecture notes to write, and a faculty meeting to go to, so I&#8217;m going off-line for the rest of the day (with one possible exception). To keep you amused in my absence, here&#8217;s some video of SteelyKid dancing to Bruce Springsteen:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rgJ0ClefuuY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rgJ0ClefuuY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t no party like a SteelyKid party, because a SteelyKid party don&#8217;t stop. Except during the sax solo.<\/p>\n<p>Should you want to hold your own SteelyKid dance party, here&#8217;s a list of songs that she has been directly observed dancing to:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m Going Down,&#8221; Bruce Springsteen<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Lion Sleeps Tonight&#8221; by They Might Be Giants<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mother Mary,&#8221; by Foxboro Hot Tubs<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;With a Little Help From My Friends,&#8221; by the Beatles<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Catch My Disease,&#8221; by Ben Lee<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;And She Was,&#8221; by Talking Heads<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do the Panic,&#8221; by Phantom Planet<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A Million Ways,&#8221; by OK Go and Bonerama<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<p>(The last is a remix version with the instrumental parts played on trombones, which is better than the original in a lot of ways.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably forgetting a few others. I haven&#8217;t included the tinny synthesized version of &#8220;She&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; Round the Mountain&#8221; that&#8217;s played by one of her toys, which she does a little hillbilly stompy thing to. Over, and over, and over&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have copy edits for an Anglicised edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog to review, lecture notes to write, and a faculty meeting to go to, so I&#8217;m going off-line for the rest of the day (with one possible exception). To keep you amused in my absence, here&#8217;s some video of SteelyKid&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/18\/steelykid-dance-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SteelyKid Dance Party<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-steelykid","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}