{"id":3157,"date":"2021-05-19T21:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/dad-baby-get-down-to-michael-jacksons-beat\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:51:22","slug":"dad-baby-get-down-to-michael-jacksons-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/dad-baby-get-down-to-michael-jacksons-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad, Baby Get Down to Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Beat It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parenting can be exhausting, but with a little creativity it can also be hilarious. Just ask Adam Ballard. He and his baby son Miles are internet famous after a &ldquo;sleep-deprived&rdquo; Ballard found himself recording an adorable Michael Jackson-inspired baby dance session.<\/p><p>&ldquo;That particular day, Miles was being super fussy,&rdquo; Ballard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/humankind\/2017\/02\/15\/baby-moonwalks-michael-jacksons-beat\/97944350\/\">told USA Today<\/a>. &ldquo;I took the phone out and thought maybe I can do a dancing video.&rdquo;<\/p><p>In the video, 4-month-old Miles is strapped into a baby carrier and with dad&rsquo;s help he boogies down to MJ&rsquo;s &ldquo;Beat It.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Of course, no Michael Jackson choreography would be complete without a moonwalk or two and his famous anti-gravity lean. It&rsquo;s all there.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Watch Miles&rsquo; video here.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When It's Just The Dudes At Home\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3NFYDTsqOdk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><p>While Miles was the one to go viral first, his older sister Zoey definitely paved the way for his fame when she was still a baby.<\/p><p>Watch her get down to this MC Hammer classic below.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can't Touch This Zoey Dance\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTPC_72o5Zk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parenting can be exhausting, but with a little creativity it can also be hilarious. Just ask Adam Ballard. He and his baby son Miles are internet famous after a &#8220;sleep-deprived&#8221; Ballard found himself recording an adorable Michael Jackson-inspired baby dance session. &#8220;That particular day, Miles was being super fussy,&#8221; Ballard told USA Today. &#8220;I took <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/dad-baby-get-down-to-michael-jacksons-beat\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1082,"featured_media":17946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":2353,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[6,17],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2017-02-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}