{"id":19326,"date":"2016-08-30T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T21:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=19326"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:41:54","slug":"shoe-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=19326","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19327\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19327\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nysfair-ralphtheshoeguy-w.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Rotella, cobbler\" width=\"526\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nysfair-ralphtheshoeguy-w.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nysfair-ralphtheshoeguy-w-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Rotella: Cobbler to Champion<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the New York State Fair, Ralph Rotella, who began collecting shoes for charity in 2011, was presented as the Today&#8217;s Option Champion. A Today\u2019s Options Champion is someone who is using his or her time and talent to make a difference in the lives of an aging population. The vote was tallied previously, but today he was officially named the Grand Champion. Rotella won $10,000 for his charity, the Rescue Mission Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the New York State Fair, Ralph Rotella, who began collecting shoes for charity in 2011, was presented as the Today&#8217;s Option Champion. A Today\u2019s Options Champion is someone who is using his or her time and talent to make a difference in the lives of an aging population. The vote was tallied previously, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[4864,1050,5004,1121,5250,234,2838,5251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326"}],"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=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22664,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions\/22664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}