{"id":131,"date":"2026-03-02T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/?p=131"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:56:22","slug":"city-council-forms-animal-welfare-caucus-to-protect-animals-and-make-pet-ownership-more-affordable-for-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/2026\/03\/02\/city-council-forms-animal-welfare-caucus-to-protect-animals-and-make-pet-ownership-more-affordable-for-new-yorkers\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council forms Animal Welfare Caucus to protect animals and make pet ownership more affordable for New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AMNY \u2014 Spearheaded by Council Member Harvey Epstein and City Council Speaker Julie Menin, the Animal Welfare Caucus is dedicated to advocacy for the humane treatment of animals in the city while also advancing more legislation to make pet ownership more affordable for animal-loving New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/city-council-animal-welfare-caucus-protect-animals-pet-affordable\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMNY \u2014 Spearheaded by Council Member Harvey Epstein and City Council Speaker Julie Menin, the Animal Welfare Caucus is dedicated to advocacy for the humane treatment of animals in the city while also advancing more legislation to make pet ownership more affordable for animal-loving New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/city-council-animal-welfare-caucus-protect-animals-pet-affordable\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}