{"id":2783,"date":"2012-04-27T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:26:02","slug":"why-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"Why Rap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2784\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2784\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2784\" title=\"Joe Clair, entertainer and health advocate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joeclair-wrapitup2.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Clair, entertainer and health advocate visited Syracuse with the Rap It Up Campaign.\" width=\"290\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joeclair-wrapitup2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joeclair-wrapitup2-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Clair,\u00a0entertainer and health advocate, visited Syracuse with the Rap It Up Campaign.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Comedian, actor and former VJ Joe Clair (aka Cleezy) brought humor and but also a generous dose of reality to the Southwest Community Center in Syracuse yesterday during the Rap It Up event. He talked about a family member being HIV positive and having to take 30 pills a day for the past 20 years to maintain. At the same time he said, those same medicines can do damage to the body.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2786\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2786\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2786\" title=\"Rap It Up Event Panel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/facessaves-panel1.jpg\" alt=\"Rap It Up Event Panel\" width=\"436\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/facessaves-panel1.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/facessaves-panel1-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rap It Up Event Panel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a moderator a panel that included Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. Cynthia Morrow, adolescent health specialist Dr. Jeri Dyson and singer Sammie, Clair kept it real by\u00a0enlightening and entertaining the crowd, young and old,\u00a0with sobering statistics\u00a0and the need for prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of these disease do not have symptoms,&#8221;\u00a0Clair said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why you need to get tested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below hear Dr. Dyson talk about diseases that do not go away.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/41143476?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"375\" height=\"275\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian, actor and former VJ Joe Clair (aka Cleezy) brought humor and but also a generous dose of reality to the Southwest Community Center in Syracuse yesterday during the Rap It Up event. He talked about a family member being HIV positive and having to take 30 pills a day for the past 20 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[1786,452,1966,1964,1969,26,1707,1967,1965,1708,1961,1968,1962,188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783"}],"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=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23727,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/23727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}