Wanderers like me may live in wealthier cities with less snow. But these towns are poorer in many ways than my hometown, with its innate friendliness and blessed indifference to the urban fashions of the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Buffalo is indomitable, unmistakably destined for a future as authentic as its past. Any place that holds the hearts of its former residents with such fervor is bound for glory again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The column is a reminder to all of us here in Buffalo as to what a truly special and unique place we have and what the future can be for us.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has a soul\u2026a part of which people who move away take a piece of\u2026a soul that keeps a lot of people who move here here.<\/p>\n
We need to celebrate who we are more and what we have here.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to be like Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, Erie or Walla Walla\u2026we just need to realize what we have here is authentic\u2026real\u2026.and stop trying to be something what we are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Loved this Buffalo love piece in the Buffalo News yesterday from a Mr. Terry Thompson of Minneapolis\u2026former B-lo type person. From Mr. Thompson\u2026 Wanderers like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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