{"id":20783,"date":"2013-02-24T20:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T01:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=20783"},"modified":"2013-02-25T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:02:37","slug":"quote-marcus-samuelsson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=20783","title":{"rendered":"QUOTE:  Marcus Samuelsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2013\/02\/24\/quote-marcus-samuelsson-2\/screen-shot-2013-02-24-at-8-44-06-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20800\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-02-24 at 8.44.06 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-24-at-8.44.06-PM.png\" width=\"331\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-24-at-8.44.06-PM.png 331w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-24-at-8.44.06-PM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-24-at-8.44.06-PM-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve heard me say that black people had to work really hard to get out of the kitchen and now they have to work really hard to get back in &#8212; I don&#8217;t want you to think I&#8217;m being negative. \u00a0For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. \u00a0If you went to school it was to become a lawyer or doctor. \u00a0Older generations didn&#8217;t understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saut\u00e9 vegetables when that trade could be taught at home. \u00a0The attitude was that those jobs were beneath us and there were better opportunities available; why would anyone want to work in a kitchen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Marcus Samuelsson (Owner, Red Rooster, Harlem, NYC)<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=5c462dcf-a7cc-4dcf-a4d9-727673c84b5c\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve heard me say that black people had to work really hard to get out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155,124715115],"tags":[124715299,124718123,124718199,124718161,124718202,124718158,2339961,15427,124718170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20783"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20817,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions\/20817"}],"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=20783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}