{"id":12389,"date":"2018-11-28T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12389"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:49:05","slug":"senator-schumer-welcomes-his-first-grandchild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12389","title":{"rendered":"Senator Schumer welcomes his first grandchild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/charles-schumer\" data-nid=\"188216\">Charles Schumer<\/a><\/span>\u00a0can count himself among the newest members of a celebrated constituency: first-time grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Democrat\u2019s daughter Jessica Schumer and her husband, Michael Shapiro, welcomed a baby boy this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old lawmaker, who has two grown daughters, tweeted about his grandson\u2019s arrival on Wednesday, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">So proud of my daughter Jessica and her husband Michael for welcoming a baby boy. Schumers &amp; Shapiros are all 1st time grandparents!<\/p>\n<p>Noah Melvin Schumer-Shapiro, very happy Brooklyn baby. &#8216;Melvin&#8217; honors his great grandfather Melvin Weinshall, who was a beloved NYC cab driver.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HhW2aPAiK6\">pic.twitter.com\/HhW2aPAiK6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/charles-schumer\" data-nid=\"188216\">Chuck Schumer<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(@SenSchumer)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1067808378150363137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Schumer\u2019s office tells ITK that Noah Schumer-Shapiro weighed in at more than 7 pounds and is 21 inches long \u00a0\u2014 landing him in the 95th\u00a0percentile, according to doctors \u2014 when he was born at New York University\u2019s Langone Tisch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>We hear little Noah is \u201ca very happy Brooklyn baby.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0can count himself&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12390,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions\/12390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}