{"id":1710,"date":"2019-02-27T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:30:34","slug":"statement-by-council-speaker-and-acting-public-advocate-corey-johnson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/02\/27\/1710\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Council Speaker and Acting Public Advocate Corey Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re: Public Advocate Special Election Results<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate my colleague and friend Jumaane Williams on winning last night\u2019s special election and I will do everything I can to ensure a smooth transition in the coming days. In my brief time as Acting Public Advocate, I found the heart and soul of the office to be in listening to New Yorkers and helping people with the problems they face. I know Public Advocate-elect Williams&nbsp;embodies the spirit of helping the New Yorkers most in need and I wish him the best of luck as he takes office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re: Public Advocate Special Election Results<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate my colleague and friend Jumaane Williams on winning last night\u2019s special election and I will do everything I can to ensure a smooth transition in the coming days. In my brief time as Acting Public Advocate, I found the heart and soul of the office to be in listening to New Yorkers and helping people with the problems they face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/02\/27\/1710\/\">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-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","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=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}