{"id":331,"date":"2014-09-03T21:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=331"},"modified":"2016-12-09T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T21:14:25","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-ban-lifted-from-lbgt-groups-marching-in-st-patricks-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2014\/09\/03\/331\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: Ban Lifted from LBGT Groups Marching In St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In solidarity with LGBT groups, Council contingent did not march in this year\u2019s parade <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a welcome first step and a good day for New Yorkers who believe in fairness, equality, and human rights. For far too long the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade excluded New Yorkers just because of who they to love. I am happy organizers finally realized that this parade is better when all are invited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In solidarity with LGBT groups, Council contingent did not march in this year\u2019s parade <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a welcome first step and a good day for New Yorkers who believe in fairness, equality, and human rights. For far too long the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade excluded New Yorkers just because of who they to love. I am happy organizers finally realized that this parade is better when all are invited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2014\/09\/03\/331\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}