{"id":87270,"date":"2026-01-02T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:47:07","slug":"new-york-becomes-a-purple-heart-state-to-honor-wounded-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87270\/","title":{"rendered":"New York becomes a Purple Heart state to honor wounded service members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York is now a designated Purple Heart state.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the legislation in November that formally recognizes service members wounded or killed while serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans and advocates say the designation is important to remember those who served.<\/p>\n<p>More than 700,000 veterans live in New York. The designation is not expected to cost local governments anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York is now a designated Purple Heart state. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the legislation in November that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14732,1984,9,11,10,49,51,50,18832,21145,1979],"class_list":{"0":"post-87270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-gov-hochul","9":"tag-hochul","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-purple-heart","17":"tag-veteran","18":"tag-veterans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87270","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=87270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}