{"id":40,"date":"2016-03-16T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyccouncillabs.wpengine.com\/press\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:40:06","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-president-obamas-selection-of-supreme-court-nominee-merrick-b-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2016\/03\/16\/40\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement By Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. Re: President Obama\u2019s Selection of Supreme Court Nominee, Merrick B. Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI applaud President Obama for nominating Merrick B. Garland to the Supreme Court. Merrick Garland has an exemplary track record of public service and has served honorably as a Federal Court Judge. Congress must do its job and consider the President\u2019s highly qualified nominee without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI applaud President Obama for nominating Merrick B. Garland to the Supreme Court. Merrick Garland has an exemplary track record of public service and has served honorably as a Federal Court Judge. Congress must do its job and consider the President\u2019s highly qualified nominee without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-obama","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}