{"id":5173,"date":"2009-07-29T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T12:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2009-07-29T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T12:29:51","slug":"news_you_can_booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/news_you_can_booze.html","title":{"rendered":"News You Can Booze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally there isn&#8217;t much point in pointing attention to legislative bills that may or may not ever be voted on, much less passed, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/tablehopping\/8530\/radical-new-bill-would-overhaul-alcohol-sales-in-the-state\/\">here&#8217;s an important one that everyone should get behind<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A bill introduced today in the state Legislature would, if passed, profoundly change the way alcohol is sold in New York. Among its provisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow stores that currently sell beer (supermarkets, convenience stores, etc.) to also sell wine and liquor.<\/li>\n<li>Replace the State Liquor Authority\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licensing system with medallions that could be sold to another operator if a business closes.<\/li>\n<li>Allow liquor stores to sell \u00e2\u20ac\u0153complementary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d items including snacks, mixers, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Permit liquor stores to open as early as 8 a.m. and close as late as 3 a.m. (9 p.m on Sundays).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally there isn&#8217;t much point in pointing attention to legislative bills that may or may not ever be voted on, much less passed, but here&#8217;s an important one that everyone should get behind: A bill introduced today in the state Legislature would, if passed, profoundly change the way alcohol is sold in New York. Among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}