{"id":195,"date":"2023-03-16T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=195"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:58:52","slug":"set-bronx-zoo-elephants-happy-and-patty-free-council-bill-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/03\/16\/set-bronx-zoo-elephants-happy-and-patty-free-council-bill-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Bronx Zoo Elephants Happy and Patty Free, Council Bill Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2023\/3\/16\/23642490\/happy-patty-elephants-bronx-zoo-hanif-shahana-hanif-nonhuman-rights-project\">The City<\/a> &#8211; Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif will introduce a bill Thursday that would, in effect, force the Bronx Zoo to give up custody of New York City\u2019s two remaining elephants, Happy and Patty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other City has passed legislation to ban elephant captivity, and I\u2019m proud New York City will be the first,\u201d Hanif, the co-chair of the Council\u2019s Progressive Caucus, told THE CITY in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to introduce this bill today to set new humane standards around elephant captivity in our City.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2023\/3\/16\/23642490\/happy-patty-elephants-bronx-zoo-hanif-shahana-hanif-nonhuman-rights-project\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2023\/3\/16\/23642490\/happy-patty-elephants-bronx-zoo-hanif-shahana-hanif-nonhuman-rights-project\">The City<\/a> &#8211; Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif will introduce a bill Thursday that would, in effect, force the Bronx Zoo to give up custody of New York City\u2019s two remaining elephants, Happy and Patty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other City has passed legislation to ban elephant captivity, and I\u2019m proud New York City will be the first,\u201d Hanif, the co-chair of the Council\u2019s Progressive Caucus, told THE CITY in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/03\/16\/set-bronx-zoo-elephants-happy-and-patty-free-council-bill-orders\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}