{"id":95785545,"date":"2010-09-16T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/new-york-city-mayor-wants-to-ban-smoking-in-times-square-coney-island-central-park\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:35:00","slug":"new-york-city-mayor-wants-to-ban-smoking-in-times-square-coney-island-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/new-york-city-mayor-wants-to-ban-smoking-in-times-square-coney-island-central-park\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Wants to Ban Smoking in Times Square, Coney Island &#038; Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn are backing a plan that would prohibit smoking at beaches, marinas,<br \/>\nbeaches, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ban would mean people would not be able to light up at some of the Big Apple&#39;s most popular tourist attractions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf the law were to be passed, heavily populated areas like Times Square, Central Park and Brooklyn&#39;s Coney Island beach would be smoke-free.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMayor Bloomberg made the announcement on the possible new smoking ban Wednesday during a press conference. The ban will most likely have no problems&nbsp; being passed, since Bloomberg has a lot of support within the city council. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat do you think of the new New York City smoking ban being extended from just bars and restaurants? Do you feel that it is a great idea or unconstitutional?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn are backing a plan that would prohibit smoking at beaches, marinas, beaches, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas. &nbsp; The ban would mean people would not be able to light up at some of the Big Apple&#39;s most popular tourist attractions. &nbsp; If the law were to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}