{"id":393083,"date":"2017-08-23T13:44:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=393083"},"modified":"2017-08-23T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:44:51","slug":"activists-demand-removal-of-monument-to-doctor-who-experimented-on-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=393083","title":{"rendered":"Activists Demand Removal of Monument to Doctor Who Experimented on Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170821\/east-harlem\/protestors-demand-marion-sims-monument-statue-removed\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170821\/east-harlem\/protestors-demand-marion-sims-monument-statue-removed\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170821\/east-harlem\/protestors-demand-marion-sims-monument-statue-removed\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170821\/east-harlem\/protestors-demand-marion-sims-monument-statue-removed#\" class=\"js-modal media-modal\" title=\"J. Marion Sims\"><img class=\"vital xs-xxxlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/assets.dnainfo.comextralarge-0aefca627f672b745430734ebcb5e4bb65322e8e.jpg\" alt=\" The statue has stood at the corner of 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue since 1934. \" \/><\/a> The statue has stood at the corner of 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue since 1934. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170821\/east-harlem\/protestors-demand-marion-sims-monument-statue-removed#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" The statue has stood at the corner of 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue since 1934. \">View Full Caption<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>DNAinfo\/Shaye Weaver<\/p>\n<p>EAST HARLEM &mdash; Protesters are demanding the city remove a statue in Central Park&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralparknyc.org\/things-to-see-and-do\/attractions\/dr-j-marion-sims.html\">dedicated to a 19th&nbsp;century&nbsp;doctor<\/a> who experimented on slaves &mdash; with one elected official comparing the controversial surgeon to Hitler.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The monument&nbsp;was installed on Fifth Avenue and East 103rd&nbsp;Street in 1934&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;J. Marion Sims, a surgeon who has been dubbed the &#8220;father of modern gynecology,&#8221; according to the Central Park Conservancy.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1845 an 1849, he performed&nbsp;gynecological experiments&nbsp;on 12 slaves without anesthesia, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, protesters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393084,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393083"}],"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=393083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393088,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393083\/revisions\/393088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}