{"id":15696,"date":"2012-02-04T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=15696"},"modified":"2012-02-04T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:53:20","slug":"harlem-remembers-don-cornelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=15696","title":{"rendered":"Harlem remembers Don Cornelius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/don-cornelius1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/don-cornelius1.jpg?w=410\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Al Sharpton&#8217;s headquarters in Harlem hosted a tribute to legendary Soul Train creator Don Cornelius who passed away this week. About 300 friends and fans gathered today to recount memories of the iconic TV trailblazer.<\/p>\n<p>Singer Roberta Flack called Mr. Cornelius an inspiration for all performers.<\/p>\n<p>Dancer Tyrone Proctor says Cornelius&#8217; show pioneered dance moves that are staples of music videos and concerts today and also expounded on his generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Fan William Aponte said he was ecstatic as a kid when his idol, Elton John, appeared on the show. He said the appearance showed that people of all races could share common ground through music.<\/p>\n<p>RIP, Don, thanks for all the Love, Peace and Soul.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=vFBo5hHMUZM#!]!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Al Sharpton&#8217;s headquarters in Harlem hosted a tribute to legendary Soul Train creator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155],"tags":[1914503,124718121,584446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15696"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15741,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions\/15741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}