{"id":7960,"date":"2014-01-15T09:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:32:19","slug":"loving-just-enough-for-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7960","title":{"rendered":"Loving (just enough for) the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7961\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7961\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7961\" title=\"Mozart from Philly (now residing in Syracuse)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mgat601tully.jpg\" alt=\"Mozart from Philly (now residing in Syracuse)\" width=\"508\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mgat601tully.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mgat601tully-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mozart from Philly (now residing in Syracuse)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the best elements that make up\u00a0the city are\u00a0immigrants. Not just folks from other nations,\u00a0 but those from other states as well.\u00a0 Immigrants bring their idioms, swagger, energy and experiences to\u00a0add to\u00a0the Syracuse stew.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0previously heard about the power of Mozart Guerrier from some students we met this summer,\u00a0but last night was the first time we caught him in performance.\u00a0 He was the featured poet at last night&#8217;s Open Mic for the Underground Poetry Spot, which was held at 601 Tully (aka the Treehouse).<\/p>\n<p>Part of Mozart&#8217;s\u00a0slam list included a humorous appreciation of Coach Jim Boeheim, a\u00a0shout out to Amiri Baraka, and also a verbal ode to the beauty of living and loving in cities. We suggest contacting Seneca Wilson and\u00a0the Underground Poetry Spot to hear\u00a0the poem about cities (there was video).<\/p>\n<p>Mozart&#8217;s compositions, movements\u00a0and performance certainly\u00a0lived up to the hype.<\/p>\n<p>It was good to see slam poetry percolating on the Near Westside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best elements that make up\u00a0the city are\u00a0immigrants. Not just folks from other nations,\u00a0 but those from other states as well.\u00a0 Immigrants bring their idioms, swagger, energy and experiences to\u00a0add to\u00a0the Syracuse stew. We\u00a0previously heard about the power of Mozart Guerrier from some students we met this summer,\u00a0but last night was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[3463,2133,5003,861,2930,3495,2486,3493,3494,612,2160,113,1274,1936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960"}],"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=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23569,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/23569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}