{"id":2880,"date":"2025-05-26T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:09:33","slug":"statement-from-speaker-adrienne-adams-on-the-passing-of-congressman-charlie-rangel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/05\/26\/2880\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Adrienne Adams on the Passing of Congressman Charlie Rangel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCongressman Charlie Rangel was a giant\u2014in Harlem and in American politics. He served with unmatched wit, courage, and an unshakable belief in the power of government to change lives. It is especially profound to lose him on Memorial Day. He was a proud Korean War veteran whose patriotism was found not just on the battlefield, but in a lifetime of fighting for working people in Congress. His legacy lives on in the countless Black and Latino New Yorkers he lifted up and inspired. I\u2019m so honored to have known him as a friend and inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCongressman Charlie Rangel was a giant\u2014in Harlem and in American politics. He served with unmatched wit, courage, and an unshakable belief in the power of government to change lives. It is especially profound to lose him on Memorial Day. He was a proud Korean War veteran whose patriotism was found not just on the battlefield, but in a lifetime of fighting for working people in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/05\/26\/2880\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}