{"id":156,"date":"2016-12-08T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=156"},"modified":"2016-12-08T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T18:22:40","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-yankees-signing-aroldis-chapman-for-86-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2016\/12\/08\/156\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: Yankees Signing Aroldis Chapman for $86 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Yankees&#8217; outrageous decision\u00a0to bring Aroldis Chapman back to New York for an astounding $86 million contract\u00a0is an insult to\u00a0fans who now have to choose between their favorite team and their conscience. It&#8217;s wrong, but that&#8217;s why we created\u00a0#NotAFan, so\u00a0fans can express their support for survivors of domestic violence\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0their disapproval to teams. They shouldn&#8217;t have to be complicit in the Yankees bad call.\u00a0Fans have a powerful voice and I urge New Yorkers to use this moment to send a strong message to the Yankees that we are #NotAFan of domestic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Yankees&#8217; outrageous decision\u00a0to bring Aroldis Chapman back to New York for an astounding $86 million contract\u00a0is an insult to\u00a0fans who now have to choose between their favorite team and their conscience. It&#8217;s wrong, but that&#8217;s why we created\u00a0#NotAFan, so\u00a0fans can express their support for survivors of domestic violence\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0their disapproval to teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2016\/12\/08\/156\/\">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-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}