{"id":10762,"date":"2014-09-01T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T00:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=10762"},"modified":"2017-12-05T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:54:12","slug":"nys-fair-day-12-puttin-in-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=10762","title":{"rendered":"NYS Fair (Day 12): Puttin&#8217; in work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10763\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10763\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10763\" title=\"Swoop: Ball Tricks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fair-swoop-balanceball.jpg\" alt=\"Swoop: Ball Tricks\" width=\"472\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fair-swoop-balanceball.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fair-swoop-balanceball-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swoop: Ball Tricks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>James Brown had nothing on Dwayne Swoop Simpson. The triple-zero uniform-wearing\u00a0entertainer for the Harlem Wizards is officially\u00a0 the\u00a0&#8220;hardest working man in show business (at the Fair).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the past week, we saw Simpson do tricks, teach salsa lessons, play some great classic\u00a0soul and rock music\u00a0as a DJ,\u00a0drum up business for local vendors, take photographs with fans,\u00a0nearly get a double-double in\u00a0 wheelchair\u00a0basketball, and just plain make a vocation\u00a0look like fun outside the Sports Activity Center.<\/p>\n<p>On this Labor Day, we salute his\u00a0work ethic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10764\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10764\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10764\" title=\"Swoop: Selfies with the crowd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/harlemwizards-swoop-selfie.jpg\" alt=\"Swoop: Selfies with the crowd\" width=\"318\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/harlemwizards-swoop-selfie.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/harlemwizards-swoop-selfie-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swoop in Selfies<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10765\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10765\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10765\" title=\"Swoop: Like Magic from the wheelchair\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swoopwheelch.jpg\" alt=\"Swoop: Like Magic from the wheelchair\" width=\"362\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swoopwheelch.jpg 362w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swoopwheelch-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swoop: Like Magic from the wheelchair<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Brown had nothing on Dwayne Swoop Simpson. The triple-zero uniform-wearing\u00a0entertainer for the Harlem Wizards is officially\u00a0 the\u00a0&#8220;hardest working man in show business (at the Fair).&#8221; For the past week, we saw Simpson do tricks, teach salsa lessons, play some great classic\u00a0soul and rock music\u00a0as a DJ,\u00a0drum up business for local vendors, take photographs with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[3463,160,5006,3975,2289,1121,5002,5000,3107,113,3976,3108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10762"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23339,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions\/23339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}