{"id":786,"date":"2010-03-19T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=786"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:05:04","slug":"the-new-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"The New American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_788\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-788\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ssic-2010-johnizzo-close1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ssic-2010-johnizzo-close1.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ssic-2010-johnizzo-close1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Izzo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John Izzo is staying true to his roots. He is the son of an Italian immigrant and describes\u00a0bittersweet memories of getting his hands dirty in the\u00a0family garden as a child.<\/p>\n<p>As he came of age however, his trade became\u00a0engineering.\u00a0But he didn&#8217;t let that work bury his dreams.\u00a0These days\u00a0wine is his\u00a0passion.<\/p>\n<p>In about a\u00a0year Izzo purchased land in Cayuga County and\u00a0co-founded\u00a0White Barn Winery with his wife Lorraine.\u00a0 They both hope to transition someday (soon) to have the winery as their full time pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>In the sound clip below Izzo\u00a0suggests that aspiring entrepreneurs assemble a Dream Team to help start, support and sustain their business\/vision. One of his mentors is Chris Scholomiti at CJS Vineyards.<\/p>\n<p>Izzo was the latest presenter for\u00a0the Start-Up NY Extraordinary Speaker series held at the Southside Innovation Center (SSIC) earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Izzo is staying true to his roots. He is the son of an Italian immigrant and describes\u00a0bittersweet memories of getting his hands dirty in the\u00a0family garden as a child. As he came of age however, his trade became\u00a0engineering.\u00a0But he didn&#8217;t let that work bury his dreams.\u00a0These days\u00a0wine is his\u00a0passion. In about a\u00a0year Izzo purchased [&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":[752,870,869,864,865,867,866,64,868,637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22912,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/22912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}