{"id":147124,"date":"2018-06-13T09:12:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=147124"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:12:04","slug":"bismarck-minot-west-fargo-elect-new-mayors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=147124","title":{"rendered":"Bismarck, Minot, West Fargo elect new mayors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Three of North Dakota&#8217;s larger cities have elected new mayors.<\/p>\n<p>In Bismarck, challenger Steve Bakken edged out incumbent Mayor Mike Seminary in Tuesday&#8217;s election. Bakken is a former radio show host and the business development manager for an engineering company.<\/p>\n<p>In Minot, City Councilman Shaun Sipma beat two other candidates to take the mayor seat vacated by Chuck Barney, who decided not to seek re-election to pursue other interests. Sipma is a former TV journalist, an insurance agent and board secretary for the Farm Rescue nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>In West Fargo, longtime Mayor Rich Mattern was unseated by Bernie Dardis. Dardis is a former CEO of a sign company who still works as a consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Three of North Dakota&#8217;s larger cities have elected new mayors. In Bismarck, challenger Steve Bakken edged out incumbent Mayor Mike Seminary in Tuesday&#8217;s election. Bakken is a former radio show host and the business development manager for an engineering company. In Minot, City Councilman Shaun Sipma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147124","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\/147124","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=147124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147125,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147124\/revisions\/147125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}