{"id":551,"date":"2009-06-24T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2010-01-14T13:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:04:40","slug":"new-yorks-mma-regulation-bill-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s MMA Regulation Bill Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding: 5px; margin-right: 5px;float:left;\" src=\"\/images\/mmaspot_09-06-24_NY.jpg\" \/>\u201cEssentially, we just ran out of time,\u201d was the explanation from a staffer for New York State Assem- blyman Steve Englebright on the failure to pass a bill legalizing and regulating Mixed Martial Arts in the state during the past legislative session. Governor David Patterson called the state Senate into an emergency session to break a leg- islative deadlock resulting from several members alternating between political parties. As a result, the focus of the session will be on high-priority bills including city budgets and same-sex marriage, while less-priority bills including the regulation of mixed martial arts will be deferred to the following year.<\/p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaspot.net\/news.php?id=454\">read more...<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[57,28,44,27,68],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-articles","tag-legalization","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-mmaspot","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}