{"id":345695,"date":"2026-09-13T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345695\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:34:15","slug":"ms-rachel-stands-up-for-awesome-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-amid-calls-to-skip-9-11-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345695\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Rachel Stands Up for \u2018Awesome\u2019 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Amid Calls to Skip 9\/11 Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Children&#8217;s educator Ms. Rachel defended New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Sept. 10 amid calls for him to avoid Ground Zero at the 25th anniversary of 9\/11, a dispute drawing citywide attention. In an Instagram post, Ms. Rachel praised Zohran Mamdani without directly mentioning the attacks and referenced NYC Pre\u2011K values on kindness and respect. The 9\/11 anniversary controversy follows scrutiny of the mayor&#8217;s past remarks and associations. Mamdani&#8217;s 2023 X post mourned victims of 9\/11 and subsequent wars, prompting criticism over his wording and a petition opposing his attendance. Families of victims urged him not to go, while he told CBS New York in July he still plans to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s educator Ms. Rachel defended New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Sept. 10 amid calls for him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49259,9,56,63,65,64,81648,82],"class_list":["post-345695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-instagram-post","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rachel","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345695","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=345695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}