{"id":1544,"date":"2017-11-11T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2017-11-13T15:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:54:38","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-veterans-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2017\/11\/11\/1544\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: Veteran&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis Veteran\u2019s Day, we continue to honor and remember those who are currently serving or have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Veterans have dedicated years of their lives to protect the ideals that we live by, and the Council remains committed to making their needs a top priority \u2013 especially through the much-needed tax relief that our recent extension of the veterans property tax exemption will provide. We will continue to work hard to ensure the wellbeing of our veterans in New York City. I want to thank all of our veterans for their work today and every day, and wish everyone a safe and happy Veteran\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Espa\u00f1ol:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEste D\u00eda de los Veteranos, seguimos honrando y recordando a aquellos que est\u00e1n sirviendo actualmente o que han hecho el m\u00e1ximo sacrificio por su pa\u00eds. Los veteranos han dedicado a\u00f1os de sus vidas para proteger los ideales que vivimos. El Concejo Municipal sigue comprometido con hacer de sus necesidades una alta prioridad, especialmente a trav\u00e9s de la tan necesaria desgravaci\u00f3n fiscal que brindar\u00e1 nuestra reciente extensi\u00f3n de la exenci\u00f3n de impuestos a la propiedad para veteranos. Seguiremos trabajando duro para garantizar el bienestar de nuestros veteranos en la Ciudad de Nueva York. Quiero agradecer a todos nuestros veteranos por su trabajo de hoy y de cada d\u00eda, y desearles a todos un D\u00eda de los Veteranos seguro y feliz\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis Veteran\u2019s Day, we continue to honor and remember those who are currently serving or have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Veterans have dedicated years of their lives to protect the ideals that we live by, and the Council remains committed to making their needs a top priority \u2013 especially through the much-needed tax relief that our recent extension of the veterans property tax exemption will provide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2017\/11\/11\/1544\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}