{"id":5900,"date":"2013-06-20T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:08:23","slug":"throwback-thursday-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5900","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5901\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5901\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5901\" title=\"Omanii Abdullah, poet, businessman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/omani-incharacter.jpg\" alt=\"Omanii Abdullah, poet, businessman (performing at the former OnaJava Cafe)\" width=\"431\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/omani-incharacter.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/omani-incharacter-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omanii Abdullah,\u00a0poet, educator and businessman (performing at the former OnaJava Cafe)<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Syracuse is a city of families. On this Throwback\u00a0Thursday I want to give some dap to the Grace family. Each summer\u00a0poet, educator and actor Omanii Abdullah sets up his hot dog stand near my office. \u00a0He&#8217;s as famous for his country-style lemonade as he is for his spoken word performances.\u00a0 Omanii has specials at his stand, and one of my favorites is the Uncle Vince. It&#8217;s named for his brother Vincent Grace, who sadly passed away a few years ago. Vincent was a karate master who influenced a generation of fighters here\u00a0in the city.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5902\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5902\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5902\" title=\"Vincent Grace (at his studio, which was located on South Salina Street)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sif-stock-martialarts-grace.jpg\" alt=\"Vincent Grace (at his studio, which was located on South Salina Street)\" width=\"436\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sif-stock-martialarts-grace.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sif-stock-martialarts-grace-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sensei Vincent Grace (training at his studio, which was located on South Salina Street back in the day)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syracuse is a city of families. On this Throwback\u00a0Thursday I want to give some dap to the Grace family. Each summer\u00a0poet, educator and actor Omanii Abdullah sets up his hot dog stand near my office. \u00a0He&#8217;s as famous for his country-style lemonade as he is for his spoken word performances.\u00a0 Omanii has specials at his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[2524,5006,1314,1311,2961,2739,2574,1299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900"}],"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=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24073,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/24073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}