{"id":1579,"date":"2018-03-29T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2018-03-29T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T17:04:18","slug":"statement-by-speaker-corey-johnson-on-the-passing-of-new-york-mets-icon-rusty-staub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2018\/03\/29\/1579\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Corey Johnson on the Passing of New York Mets Icon Rusty Staub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Borough of Queens and the City of New York lost a titan today: legendary New York Met Rusty Staub. On this Opening Day, Rusty\u2019s loss leaves a void at Citi Field and baseball stadiums across the country. Rusty not only was a champion in baseball but also a champion for all humanitarian causes. He was as good off the field as he was on. Rusty helped all New Yorkers \u2012 whether you were a child or a senior citizen, rich or poor or even a Yankees fan. New Yorkers will miss Rusty greatly, and the Council expresses its deepest condolences to Rusty\u2019s family and Mets fans everywhere. Viva Le Grand Orange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Borough of Queens and the City of New York lost a titan today: legendary New York Met Rusty Staub. On this Opening Day, Rusty\u2019s loss leaves a void at Citi Field and baseball stadiums across the country. Rusty not only was a champion in baseball but also a champion for all humanitarian causes. He was as good off the field as he was on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2018\/03\/29\/1579\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}