{"id":22356,"date":"2013-05-23T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=22356"},"modified":"2013-05-23T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:32:52","slug":"russell-simmons-and-trader-joes-in-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=22356","title":{"rendered":"Russell Simmons and Trader Joe\u2019s In Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/a_190x190.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grubstreet reports that the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network has\u00a0approached Russell Simmons\u00a0to launch an initiative to provide healthy food to New Yorkers living in the city&#8217;s food deserts. \u00a0 The concept is to mimic Trader Joe&#8217;s business model and manufacture and sell it&#8217;s own products. \u00a0The plan calls for opening a\u00a0food factory and a chain of stores in neighborhoods that include Central Harlem. \u00a0 &#8220;We want cool, fun vegetarian stuff,&#8221; Simmons told the New York\u00a0Daily News. &#8220;It\u2019s an alternative to eating poison.&#8221; He&#8217;s about to start raising money through a crowdsourcing campaign on his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/2013\/05\/GlobalGrind.Com\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2013\/05\/18\/harlemgrown-leading-the-greening-of-harlem\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/170157736_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2013\/05\/18\/harlemgrown-leading-the-greening-of-harlem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harlemgrown &#8211; Leading the greening of Harlem<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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=53ff6763-bdb3-435a-801c-4ac2455c8752\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grubstreet reports that the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network has\u00a0approached Russell Simmons\u00a0to launch an initiative to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2020179,124715430,586,13985,124715451,124715431,296199],"tags":[77809719,124715606,124718158,93470272,124715604,15427,124718163,124715605,23207,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356"}],"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=22356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22363,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356\/revisions\/22363"}],"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=22356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}