{"id":267,"date":"2008-10-07T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site2098.wordpress.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2014-09-02T13:29:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:29:37","slug":"harriet-tubman-memorial-swing-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman Memorial \u201cSwing Low\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/harriet-tubman-statue-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-268 alignleft\" title=\"Harriet Tubman Memorial &quot;Swing Low&quot; on FDB\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/harriet-tubman-statue-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As you walk\u00a0along Frederick Douglass Boulevard, one of the most striking sights is the statue of Harriet Tubman nestled in the triangle at 123rd Street where St. Nicholas Avenue crosses FDB.\u00a0 This remarkable sculpture is the work of Alison Saar, an African American artist who has captured\u00a0the strength and determination of the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad while making\u00a0a powerful statement about this heroic figure\u2019s impact on both the lives she touched and the institution of slavery. \u00a0Alison Saar has constructed the standing figure of Harriet Tubman as an \u201concoming train\u201d, aimed at the South, with the faces and shoes of her passengers as well as the precious personal items they carried and the broken shackles they wore, embedded in her skirts. \u00a0The exposed roots in her wake symbolize both the uprooting of the institution of slavery and the upheaval faced by each individual slave who chose to seek freedom by severing themselves from the only life they had ever known.\u00a0 The piece is entitled \u201cSwing Low\u201d,\u00a0named for one of Harriet Tubman\u2019s favorite spirituals.\u00a0 Check out the artist\u2019s description of her vision at the link below or, better yet, walk by and take a look for yourself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: &amp;;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/items\/88819305_spirit_of_harriet_tubman\">http:\/\/current.com\/items\/88819305_spirit_of_harriet_tubman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As you walk\u00a0along Frederick Douglass Boulevard, one of the most striking sights is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124716977],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28644,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/28644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}