{"id":729674,"date":"2026-04-15T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/729674\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:22:49","slug":"this-community-gave-me-the-freedom-to-live-openly-and-the-responsibility-to-give-back-carl-wilson-shares-his-west-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/729674\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis Community Gave Me the Freedom to Live Openly and the Responsibility to Give Back\u201d \u2014 Carl Wilson Shares His West Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As early voting approaches, Carl Wilson shares his West Side Story \u2014 the next in a series with all four candidates ahead of the April 28 special election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Carl-wilson_9706.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139042\"\/>Carl Wilson is running in the April 28 special election to replace former council member Erik Bottcher. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what\u2019s your New York story? Born here, or just arrived?<br \/><\/strong>I was raised in Prince George\u2019s County, Maryland, a multiracial, majority-Black community that shaped my understanding of solidarity, equity, and justice. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As early voting approaches, Carl Wilson shares his West Side Story \u2014 the next in a series with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":729675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,301971,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-729674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-election2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116408703264598455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}