{"id":18621,"date":"2018-07-09T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=18621"},"modified":"2018-08-20T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T17:35:22","slug":"fsc-alum-takes-you-on-a-journey-through-his-colorful-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2018\/07\/09\/fsc-alum-takes-you-on-a-journey-through-his-colorful-life\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC Alum Takes You on a Journey through His Colorful Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsb-canvas body\">\n<div class=\"wsb-canvas-page-container\">\n<div id=\"wsb-canvas-template-page\" class=\"wsb-canvas-page page\">\n<div id=\"wsb-canvas-template-container\">\n<div id=\"wsb-element-00000000-0000-0000-0000-000065515033\" class=\"wsb-element-text\">\n<div class=\"txt \">\n<p>FSC alum Paul Failla &#8217;73, a former police officer who, after he retired from the force, reinvented himself into an educational consultant, is doing his one-man show, <em>The Class of Life<\/em>, Wednesday, 8\/1, at 1 p.m. at the Elmont Public Library, 700 Hempstead Turnpike. The show is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Class of Life<\/em> is a theatrical experience that takes the audience on a journey through one man&#8217;s life.\u00a0 It begins on the last day of his career as a police officer.\u00a0 What follows are reminiscences about why he joined the force, his Italian heritage, upbringing, and married life. Using a blend of humor, drama and life experience, Failla takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster through stories chronicling his life.<\/p>\n<p>One audience member posted this comment on Failla&#8217;s website: &#8220;A wonderful show about family, honor, respect, and growing up Italian with sprinkles of hilarity strewn throughout. I definitely got choked up a few times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FSC alum Paul Failla &#8217;73, a former police officer who, after he retired from the force, reinvented himself into an educational consultant, is doing his one-man show, The Class of Life, Wednesday, 8\/1, at 1 p.m. at the Elmont Public Library, 700 Hempstead Turnpike. The show is free and open to all. The Class of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18626,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions\/18626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}