{"id":279238,"date":"2026-06-26T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:45:05","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-meet-howie-the-mets-newest-teammate-with-a-big-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279238\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Meet Howie The Mets Newest Teammate With A Big Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York Mets have a new team member, but this one has four legs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Howie, an 11-week-old yellow lab, is joining the organization as a future service dog.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The puppy will be co-raised by the Mets and America\u2019s Vet-Dogs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say he will receive basic training and socialization with help from team staff, players and even fans.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Howie is named after longtime Mets broadcaster Howie Rose, who is set to retire at the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The program aims to prepare the puppy for future service work supporting veterans and first responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets have a new team member, but this one has four legs. Howie, an 11-week-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-279238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}