{"items": [{"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1346378790856", "service": "gp", "text": "I wonder if you could convert some ECD three-couple-set dances into contra triplets...", "timestamp": 1346378790}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1346384184413", "service": "gp", "text": "@Josh\n\u00a0You definitely could, and people have, but I think they're mostly going to be too hard.", "timestamp": 1346384184}, {"author": "Rick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/480432865308963?comment_id=480591148626468", "anchor": "fb-480591148626468", "service": "fb", "text": "I'd be happy to work with you to write several easy triplets, if you're interested.", "timestamp": "1346406669"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1346419122767", "service": "gp", "text": "Hmm, I dunno. What if you start with an easy English dance? :^) Seriously, though, especially some of the Playford ones, with a repeated B part; replace up-a-double with long-lines, siding with a do-si-do, and arming with a partner swing, and I bet you can transform all kinds of things pretty easily.\n<br>\n<br>\nFor that matter, you could take that structure and just plug in your own B part, based on how long the music is.", "timestamp": 1346419122}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1346502582220", "service": "gp", "text": "@Josh\n\u00a0Playford-style dances that aren't the same each time through fit within what English dancers expect but are unusual in contra. \u00a0A dance can be an easy English triplet while it's conversion would be an intermediate Contra one.", "timestamp": 1346502582}, {"author": "Rick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/480432865308963?comment_id=481176078567975", "anchor": "fb-481176078567975", "service": "fb", "text": "I just wrote three triplets.  One easy, one medium and one hard.  I'll show you tomorrow.  (I know you didn't want a hard one, but I felt like writing it.)", "timestamp": "1346535963"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1346558002638", "service": "gp", "text": "Mm, maybe -- what I was envisioning was that this would basically be a six figure Contra dance, and in fact the second, fourth, and sixth figures would be the same for simplicity.", "timestamp": 1346558002}]}