{"id":429545,"date":"2021-04-15T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429545"},"modified":"2021-04-15T21:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:07:40","slug":"gma-tells-influential-doctor-that-philadelphia-named-a-street-in-her-honor-and-they-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gma-tells-influential-doctor-that-philadelphia-named-a-street-in-her-honor-and-they-were-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"GMA Tells Influential Doctor That Philadelphia Named A Street In Her Honor\u2026 And They Were Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgma-tells-influential-doctor-that-philadelphia-named-a-street-in-her-honor-and-they-were-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-30.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"45.855763770585\">\n<p>Good Morning America\u2019s Monday segment claimed a Philadelphia street had been renamed after a pediatric surgeon who spearheaded independent COVID-19 testing effort, but unfortunately, that wasn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/healthcare-news\/2020\/08\/08\/ala-stanford-black-doctors-covid-19-consortium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Ala Stanford<\/a>, who launched <a href=\"https:\/\/realconciergemedicine.com\/covid19.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium<\/a> in April 2020 to increase availability of testing in the minority communities, started weeping Monday when Good Morning America personality T.J. Holmes presented her with an Ala Stanford Way street sign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe City of Philadelphia is doing something as well,\u201d Holmes told Stanford, after handing her a $10,000 check from the Verizon-owned company Visible. \u201cThis neighborhood that you have helped so much, you are getting your own street here in this community, dear lady. This is real. This is an actual street sign. And it is actually going up in this neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pediatric surgeon Dr. Ala Stanford honored for work during pandemic | GMA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D858QL6Xx9E?start=379&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The live segment made it seem like the North Philadelphia street had officially changed its name, which turned out to be only a \u201cceremonial gesture,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/ala-stanford-street-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Philadelphia Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe street renaming was presented as a ceremonial gesture,\u201d spokesperson for Philadelphia mayor Kevin Lessard reportedly said, noting that there are no current plans to name a street in the doctor\u2019s honor. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/27\/shooting-golf-and-social-philadelphia-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Several Shot Outside Philadelphia Sports Bar)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The city of Philadelphia has two types of street renaming: technical and ceremonial, according to Philadelphia Magazine. While the actual process requires certain procedural steps and takes a long period of time, the ceremonial renaming is a lot quicker.<\/p>\n<p>In the latter case, a smaller red sign with the honoree\u2019s name gets placed beneath the actual street sign. This is what will happen to the Ala Stanford street sign as well, the report says.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning America\u2019s Monday segment claimed a Philadelphia street had been renamed after a pediatric surgeon who spearheaded independent COVID-19 testing effort, but unfortunately, that wasn\u2019t the case. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312273,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-30.png","fifu_image_alt":"GMA Tells Influential Doctor That Philadelphia Named A Street In Her Honor\u2026 And They Were Wrong","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-30.png","fifu_image_alt":"GMA Tells Influential Doctor That Philadelphia Named A Street In Her Honor\u2026 And They Were Wrong","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}