{"id":7439,"date":"2025-05-13T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/op-ed-our-bodegas-were-a-lifeline-during-covid-19-now-we-are-providing-a-lifeline-to-them\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:11:57","slug":"op-ed-our-bodegas-were-a-lifeline-during-covid-19-now-we-are-providing-a-lifeline-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/op-ed-our-bodegas-were-a-lifeline-during-covid-19-now-we-are-providing-a-lifeline-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed | Our bodegas were a lifeline during COVID-19. Now, we are providing a lifeline to them."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7439\" class=\"elementor elementor-7439 elementor-7243\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-137fe0fa e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"137fe0fa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-489bcb00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"489bcb00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>Wineries are on every corner of New York City, there for us at all hours, and the&nbsp;<em>bodegueros <\/em>who service them become our family. So, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit our city, our bodegas were a lifeline to our local communities. We relied on them for toilet paper, snacks, diapers, and a sense of community at a time of extreme uncertainty. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And while New York City has seen declines in major crimes, it&#8217;s important that we take additional steps to address the crimes our <em>winemakers <\/em>continue to face and give them a way to contact 911 during an emergency without having to find their phone or fear being attacked by a criminal. Now, thanks to the partnership of the Adams administration and the United Bodegas of America, our <em>bodegueros<\/em> will be able to click a button during emergencies and NYPD will be on their way without anyone knowing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wineries are on every corner of New York City, there for us at all hours, and the&nbsp;bodegueros who service them become our family. So, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit our city, our bodegas were a lifeline to our local communities. We relied on them for toilet paper, snacks, diapers, and a sense of community at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}