{"id":9871,"date":"2014-06-16T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:50:46","slug":"flat-out-stanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=9871","title":{"rendered":"Flat (out) Stanley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9872\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9872\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9872\" title=\"Hammer on stage at the NYS Fair (Chevy Court) with his hype dancers (circa 2009)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sif-stock-hammer-nysf.jpg\" alt=\"Hammer on stage at the NYS Fair (Chevy Court) with his hype dancers (circa 2009)\" width=\"508\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sif-stock-hammer-nysf.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sif-stock-hammer-nysf-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hammer on stage at the NYS Fair (Chevy Court) with his hype dancers (circa 2009)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Syracuse.com writer Chris Baker wrote a story today talking about the greatest New York State Fair concert moments of all time.<\/p>\n<p>For our taste the 2009 visit by Hammer (aka MC Hammer, aka Stanley Burrell) still reverberates near Chevy Court. On a warm, muggy night in September the artist may have been past the peak of his superpowers, but he put on a show for the ages.\u00a0 The Hip Hop experience featured a dozen or so dancers that nearly set the stage on fire. At one point he even invited about 50 audience members on stage with him for a finale that turned the mutha out.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe, but\u00a0the show was free (with admission to the Fair) and the seating was\u00a0first come-first serve.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9873\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9873\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9873\" title=\"Hammer surfs the State Fair crowd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sif-stock-hammer-nysf1.jpg\" alt=\"Hammer surfs the State Fair crowd\" width=\"508\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sif-stock-hammer-nysf1.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sif-stock-hammer-nysf1-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hammer surfs the State Fair crowd<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syracuse.com writer Chris Baker wrote a story today talking about the greatest New York State Fair concert moments of all time. For our taste the 2009 visit by Hammer (aka MC Hammer, aka Stanley Burrell) still reverberates near Chevy Court. On a warm, muggy night in September the artist may have been past the peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[3463,564,561,4999,1121,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871"}],"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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22468,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions\/22468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}