{"id":2470,"date":"2012-03-01T00:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T05:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:14:09","slug":"hi-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2470","title":{"rendered":"Hi There"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2471\" style=\"width: 811px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2471\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lhjacobs-su-talk-w.jpg\" alt=\"Actor, director, writer Lawrence Hilton Jacobs speaks at Syracuse University on Wednesday.\" width=\"801\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lhjacobs-su-talk-w.jpg 801w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lhjacobs-su-talk-w-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor, director, writer Lawrence Hilton Jacobs spoke at Syracuse University on Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, aka Cochise, aka Papa Joe, aka Freddie &#8220;Boom Boom&#8221; Washington, aka Larry FORD (friend of\u00a0Richard Dubin) was the latest celebrity to participate in the Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media at Syracuse University&#8217;s Newhouse School.\u00a0 During the more than 1 hour talk, Dubin and Jacobs reminisced about their days as actors in New York City, 70s sitcoms and blaxploitation flicks.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs has starred in film, television and on Broadway in his over 40-year career, from\u00a0<em>The Jacksons\u00a0<\/em>to <em>Welcome Back Carter<\/em> and <em>Cooley High<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Both men\u00a0dropped pearls of wisdom for the students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to have raw nerve.\u00a0There is no easy road.&#8221; Jacobs said. &#8220;Acting is a business. It&#8217;s a craft, it&#8217;s work. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dubin added that Hollywood is not a place where you go to apply for a job, but rather somewhere where you use\u00a0entrepreneurial skills to create opportunity for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe this series has been running for over a decade. The last Conversation I saw was with Chappelle Show Director Rusty Cundieff a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, aka Cochise, aka Papa Joe, aka Freddie &#8220;Boom Boom&#8221; Washington, aka Larry FORD (friend of\u00a0Richard Dubin) was the latest celebrity to participate in the Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media at Syracuse University&#8217;s Newhouse School.\u00a0 During the more than 1 hour talk, Dubin and Jacobs reminisced about their days as actors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[1786,1876,5005,1873,1874,64,1877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470"}],"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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23714,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/23714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}