{"id":207930,"date":"2026-02-02T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207930"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:22:41","slug":"zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207930","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate &#8220;Politics of Optimism&#8221; at His Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures and police barricades to be part of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s inauguration as mayor on New Year\u2019s Day. Democracy Now! spoke with many Mamdani supporters, including a high school student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, about what the day represented to them&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/1\/2\/mamdani_inauguration_vox_pop\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures and police barricades to be part<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration.jpg",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207930-zohran-mamdani-supporters-celebrate-politics-of-optimism-at-his-inauguration-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}