{"id":11386,"date":"2013-01-22T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2013-02-06T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:34:54","slug":"chester-reiten-passes-businessman-politician-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11386","title":{"rendered":"Chester Reiten Passes, Businessman, Politician, Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Jan 22, 2013)\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; North Dakota businessman, politician and entrepreneur Chester Reiten has died.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reiten died Tuesday at a care facility in Minot, at the age of 89. Son David Reiten tells The Associated Press that his father&#8217;s wife of 65 years, Joy, was at his side.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reiten built the KX Television Network, served as a mayor of Minot for 14 years and as a state senator for 16 years, and founded the annual Norsk Hostfest Scandinavian heritage festival. The event draws about 60,000 people from around the world each fall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2002, Reiten was given the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the state&#8217;s highest honor. He also is one of only a handful of Americans to receive the St. Olav Medal from the king of Norway, because of his work with the Hostfest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Jan 22, 2013)\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; North Dakota businessman, politician and entrepreneur Chester Reiten has died. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reiten died Tuesday at a care facility in Minot, at the age of 89. Son David Reiten tells The Associated Press that his father&#8217;s wife of 65 years, Joy, was at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12164,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions\/12164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}