{"id":42,"date":"2024-06-27T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/?p=42"},"modified":"2024-06-29T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:57:41","slug":"a-look-behind-the-scenes-at-one-longtime-roslindale-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/2024\/06\/27\/a-look-behind-the-scenes-at-one-longtime-roslindale-butcher\/","title":{"rendered":"A look behind the scenes at one longtime Roslindale butcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By Terrance Lorn<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antonio DeBenedictis dreamed of being an opera conductor, but his father quickly rejected the idea, stating \u201call musicians die poor.\u201d Instead he became an award-winning butcher providing Roslindale and surrounding towns with his personality and imported Italian groceries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in 1939, in Pratola Serra, a small town in Italy, DeBenedict is was the oldest of nine siblings. At the age of 19, his world changed when he emigrated to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in 1939, in Pratola Serra, a small town in Italy, DeBenedictis was the oldest of nine siblings. At the age of 19, his world changed when he emigrated to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"module\" type=\"text\/javascript\"  charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/static\/embed\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n            <a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/wT5HLdcg8j6i1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/wT5HLdcg8j6i1\/resources?asset_id=rendition&#038;buster=1719515050389\" alt=\"Roslindale&#39;s Butcher: Tony Debenedict\" style=\"width:100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Terrance Lorn Antonio DeBenedictis dreamed of being an opera conductor, but his father quickly rejected the idea, stating \u201call musicians die poor.\u201d Instead he became an award-winning butcher providing Roslindale and surrounding towns with his personality and imported Italian groceries. Born in 1939, in Pratola Serra, a small town in Italy, DeBenedict is was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,17,14,15,13],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-butcher","tag-italy","tag-roslindale","tag-roslindale-butcher","tag-tony-debenedict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}