{"id":21962,"date":"2013-04-21T18:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T22:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=21962"},"modified":"2013-04-22T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:28:28","slug":"quote-fernando-mateo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=21962","title":{"rendered":"QUOTE:  Fernando Mateo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2013\/04\/21\/quote-fernando-mateo\/th-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21963\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21963\" alt=\"th\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was there not as anything that has to do with the city, City Hall, the campaign, &#8230; I was there as I&#8217;m always there to help my community in whichever way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fernando Mateo<\/p>\n<p><em>*Fernando Mateo was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in a poor neighborhood on Manhattan\u2019s lower east side then lived for many years in Washington Heights. \u00a0In 1998, Mateo founded the New York State Federation Of Taxi Drivers, a lobbying group and union of sorts composed primarily of livery cab drivers. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fernando_Mateo\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was there not as anything that has to do with the city, City Hall,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155,124715115],"tags":[124715511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962"}],"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=21962"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21973,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962\/revisions\/21973"}],"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=21962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}