{"id":394930,"date":"2017-08-25T19:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=394930"},"modified":"2017-08-25T19:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:45:01","slug":"political-insiders-vie-for-melissa-mark-viveritos-east-harlem-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=394930","title":{"rendered":"Political Insiders Vie For Melissa Mark-Viverito&#8217;s East Harlem Council Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170825\/east-harlem\/melissa-mark-viverito-diana-ayala-state-assemblyman-robert-rodriguez-city-council-race\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170825\/east-harlem\/melissa-mark-viverito-diana-ayala-state-assemblyman-robert-rodriguez-city-council-race\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170825\/east-harlem\/melissa-mark-viverito-diana-ayala-state-assemblyman-robert-rodriguez-city-council-race\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170825\/east-harlem\/melissa-mark-viverito-diana-ayala-state-assemblyman-robert-rodriguez-city-council-race#slideshow\" class=\"js-slideshow\" title=\"District 8\"><\/a> <img class=\"vital\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/assets.dnainfo.comextralarge-a306b8d703a2607f9bd39c43a6fbb8ce7a16d60a.jpg\" alt=\" A look at the candidates trying to replace Melissa Mark-Viverito in the city council. \" \/> District 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170825\/east-harlem\/melissa-mark-viverito-diana-ayala-state-assemblyman-robert-rodriguez-city-council-race#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" A look at the candidates trying to replace Melissa Mark-Viverito in the city council. \">View Full Caption<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>HARLEM &mdash; For the first time since 2006, somebody not named Melissa Mark-Viverito will represent East Harlem in the City Council after the November election.<\/p>\n<p>The two front-runners &mdash; Mark-Viverito&rsquo;s political prot&eacute;g&eacute; Diana Ayala and state Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez &mdash; are both political insiders both equipped with six-figure war chests and long lists of endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala, who has never held elected office,&nbsp;most recently worked to connect seniors with social services, before moving to&nbsp;Mark-Viverito&#8217;s office. Although she is grateful for her political mentor, Ayala is ready to stand on her own.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394931,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394934,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394930\/revisions\/394934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}