{"id":26091,"date":"2023-06-06T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26091"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:23:08","slug":"ken-kolb-responds-to-washington-post-opinion-about-food-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ken-kolb-responds-to-washington-post-opinion-about-food-desserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Kolb responds to Washington Post opinion about food deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Ken Kolb, professor and chair of sociology at Furman, penned a response to a Washington Post opinion piece about the issues of food deserts and food swamps, parts of cities lacking healthy food options or with abundant unhealthy ones. Kolb said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/06\/05\/food-deserts-invest-customers\/\">in his response<\/a> that investing in grocery stores and healthy food restaurants won&#8217;t solve the problem of food disparity. Cities should invest in infrastructure, childcare, job training and education first, and companies catering to healthier, more prosperous neighborhoods will follow. Kolb&#8217;s latest book, &#8220;Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate,&#8221; was nominated for a James Beard Award, and it won the book award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Kolb, professor and chair of sociology, replied to a Washington Post opinion piece about food deserts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,1943],"tags":[1046,1330,2121,1487],"class_list":["post-26091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-sociology","category-the-washington-post","tag-food-deserts","tag-in-the-news","tag-retail-deserts","tag-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}