{"id":1405,"date":"2017-04-10T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2017-04-10T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:00:50","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2017\/04\/10\/1405\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis week, thousands of families across New York City will come together to celebrate Passover \u2013 a powerful commemoration of the historic journey of the Jewish people to freedom, whose lessons still resonate with us today. Passover is a time to celebrate traditions and enjoy time with family and friends, reminding us all that we can find joy even amidst these times of uncertainty in our country.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the New York City Council, I would like to extend a Happy Passover to the members of our Jewish community in New York City. <em>Chag Pesach Kasher V&#8217;Sameach!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis week, thousands of families across New York City will come together to celebrate Passover \u2013 a powerful commemoration of the historic journey of the Jewish people to freedom, whose lessons still resonate with us today. Passover is a time to celebrate traditions and enjoy time with family and friends, reminding us all that we can find joy even amidst these times of uncertainty in our country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2017\/04\/10\/1405\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}