{"id":14534,"date":"2013-10-08T05:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T10:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:35:51","slug":"south-philly-street-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/08\/south-philly-street-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"South Philly Street Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14536\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/08\/south-philly-street-fair\/thegeator\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TheGeator.jpg?fit=640%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,397\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TheGeator\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TheGeator.jpg?fit=640%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14536\" alt=\"TheGeator\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TheGeator.jpg?resize=640%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TheGeator.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TheGeator.jpg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, we took a stroll over to the Italian Festival at St. Nicholas of Tolentine in South Philly. There was food, games of chance, and a good time was had by all. I was delighted to see my make believe boyfriend Jerry Blavat on stage playing the oldies and working the crowd. Regular readers may recall Jerry proclaiming his <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/21\/jerry-blavat-loves-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">love<\/a> for me at a book signing two years ago. Lookin&#8217; good, Jerry!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14538\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/08\/south-philly-street-fair\/crowd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crowd.jpg?fit=640%2C559&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,559\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Crowd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crowd.jpg?fit=640%2C559&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14538\" alt=\"Crowd\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crowd.jpg?resize=448%2C391&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"448\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crowd.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crowd.jpg?resize=300%2C262&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, we took a stroll over to the Italian Festival at St. Nicholas of Tolentine in South Philly. There was food, games of chance, and a good time was had by all. I was delighted to see my make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/08\/south-philly-street-fair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,2093],"tags":[2819,799,105,2818],"class_list":["post-14534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-italian-festival","tag-jerry-blavat","tag-south-philly","tag-st-nicholas-of-tolentine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22282,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/22\/italian-market-festival-2017-day-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":14534,"position":0},"title":"Italian Market Festival 2017 &#8211; Day 2","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"May 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Day two - the sun made an appearance, along with Jerry Blavat, The Verdi Band from Norristown, and some Saints! 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