{"id":1389,"date":"2010-11-18T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:46:08","slug":"southern-soul-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Southern Soul Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3748\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3748\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3748 size-full\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #676c6c;\" title=\"Mrs. Townsend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-rollcall.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Townsend\" width=\"508\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-rollcall.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-rollcall-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Townsend, DJ WSIV radio<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Syracuse in many ways is a city of churches. I recently caught up with on-air personality Lula Townsend, who has a radio show on 1540 WSIV-AM.\u00a0Her show\u00a0brings the church experience to the shut-ins, retirees and those unable to make it to Sunday services.<\/p>\n<p>At one time Townsend&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Classic and Traditional Gospel Hour<\/em> was on three times a week, but now she&#8217;s cut back to once. Each Monday she is in the studio\u00a0shuffling\u00a0vinyl records, reading\u00a0Bible verses to her listeners, and answering phone calls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3749\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3749\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3749\" title=\"Mrs. Townsend, DJ WSIV radio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-shuffleplaylis.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Townsend, DJ WSIV radio\" width=\"508\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-shuffleplaylis.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-shuffleplaylis-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Townsend, DJ WSIV radio<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed Mrs. Townsend&#8217;s show, because in addition to providing informal history lessons about Syracuse, her voice is a true echo of our city&#8217;s Southern roots.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3750\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3750\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3750\" title=\"Mrs. Townsend, DJ WSIV radio (playlist)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-vinylalbum2.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Townsend, DJ WSIV radio (playlist)\" width=\"515\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-vinylalbum2.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lulatownsend-vinylalbum2-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Townsend, DJ WSIV radio (playlist)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>When did you come to Syracuse<\/strong>: I came from Miami, FL in 1953.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who inspired you<\/strong>: I credit Rev. Walter C. Blue who was on WSOQ radio in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favorite song: <\/strong><em>Bless me now Blessed Savior<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your motto<\/strong>: Pray without ceasing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does Syracuse mean to you<\/strong>: Syracuse has always been [for me] the center of hospitality and home of brotherly love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syracuse in many ways is a city of churches. I recently caught up with on-air personality Lula Townsend, who has a radio show on 1540 WSIV-AM.\u00a0Her show\u00a0brings the church experience to the shut-ins, retirees and those unable to make it to Sunday services. At one time Townsend&#8217;s\u00a0Classic and Traditional Gospel Hour was on three times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,18],"tags":[365,752,463,907,1339,22,366,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22959,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/22959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}