{"id":2028,"date":"2010-06-24T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:14:24","slug":"uncommongoods-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2010\/uncommongoods-goes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"UncommonGoods Goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Ok, not really, but we are getting involved in New York State politics!)<\/p>\n<p>Hot off the press &#8212; the bill for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcorporation.net\/about\" target=\"_self\">benefit  corporations<\/a> (UncommonGoods was a founding member) was passed in NY  state! This bill makes room in state corporate law for a legal middle  ground between nonprofits and ordinary businesses. Hip hip hooray!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the catch, though, the bill still must pass\u00a0 in the  Assembly and then go to the Governor before becoming law.  If you want to help make  this happen, please call Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver&#8217;s office at  518.455.3791 &#8211; bill # is A11498 &#8211; we&#8217;re hoping to get it passed before  the session ends next week!<\/p>\n<p>Read  more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/wall-street\/new-be-good-business-albany-gives-birth-new-york%E2%80%99s-benefit-corporation?page=0\" target=\"_blank\">benefit corporations and the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help us pass the bill for benefit corporations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1057,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64643,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/64643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}