{"id":25687,"date":"2025-04-04T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25687"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:56:23","slug":"nanny-state-nyc-will-start-digging-through-residents-trash-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/nanny-state-nyc-will-start-digging-through-residents-trash-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanny State: NYC Will Start Digging Through Residents&#8217; Trash Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in New York City, government employees will start digging through your garbage today. And if you have something that isn&#8217;t supposed to be there, you&#8217;ll get a fine of at least $25. This isn&#8217;t an April Fool&#8217;s Day joke.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of trash can contraband are they looking for? The usual. Food scraps; yard waste, like raked leaves; coffee grounds; paper towels used to clean up food; pizza boxes but only certain kinds.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It all stems from a new mandate that the city council passed in 2023 that requires residents of all five NYC boroughs to participate in a mandatory composting program. While the new rule went into effect in October, the city announced that as of April 1, 2025, it will be cracking down on people who don&#8217;t comply.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/sarah-anderson\/2025\/04\/01\/nanny-state-nyc-will-start-digging-through-residents-trash-today-n4938477\">pjmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in New York City, government employees will start digging through your garbage today. And if you have something that isn&#8217;t supposed to be there, you&#8217;ll get a fine of at least $25. This isn&#8217;t an April Fool&#8217;s Day joke. What kind of trash can contraband are they looking for? The usual. Food &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/nanny-state-nyc-will-start-digging-through-residents-trash-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nanny State: NYC Will Start Digging Through Residents&#8217; Trash Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Gj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25688,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687\/revisions\/25688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}