{"id":13352,"date":"2013-02-21T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13352"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:41:19","slug":"sgt-clinton-romesha-honored-thurs-bismarck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13352","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Clinton Romesha, Honored Thurs., Bismarck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RomeshaClinton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10860\" title=\"RomeshaClinton\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RomeshaClinton-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RomeshaClinton-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RomeshaClinton-311x175.jpg 311w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RomeshaClinton.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Gov. Jack Dalrymple and other state officials honored Medal of Honor recipient and former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha during a standing-room-only ceremony at the state Capitol Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalrymple called Romesha a &#8220;true American hero&#8221; for his courageous leadership during a daylong firefight in Afghanistan. Dalrymple says the state is &#8220;proud to call him a North Dakotan.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Barack Obama awarded the medal to Romesha earlier this month in Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Romesha told the more than 200 people gathered at the Capitol that he is proud of all the soldiers he served with in the military. And, he says, &#8220;It&#8217;s good to be home.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Romesha left the Army in April 2011 after nearly 12 years of service. He lives in Minot with his wife and three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Gov. Jack Dalrymple and other state officials honored Medal of Honor recipient and former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha during a standing-room-only ceremony at the state Capitol Thursday. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalrymple called Romesha a &#8220;true American hero&#8221; for his courageous leadership during a daylong firefight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352","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=13352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}