{"id":457,"date":"2013-08-09T01:33:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=457"},"modified":"2016-12-12T01:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T01:33:38","slug":"statement-by-speaker-quinn-re-passing-of-bill-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2013\/08\/09\/457\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Quinn. Re: Passing of Bill Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday, we mourn the loss of true champion for progressive causes and one of the sharpest minds that New York government and politics has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Lynch dedicated his life to making New York City a better place. As Deputy Mayor under Mayor Dinkins, Bill played a critical role in facilitating Nelson Mandela\u2019s historic visit to New York City in 1990.  Bill was a fighter for equality and the embodiment of a New Yorker: tough, smart, and fiercely loyal to the City he loved.<\/p>\n<p> Bill was my friend &#8211; he was a one of a kind New Yorker, and he will be sorely missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday, we mourn the loss of true champion for progressive causes and one of the sharpest minds that New York government and politics has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Lynch dedicated his life to making New York City a better place. As Deputy Mayor under Mayor Dinkins, Bill played a critical role in facilitating Nelson Mandela\u2019s historic visit to New York City in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2013\/08\/09\/457\/\">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-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}