{"id":214608,"date":"2020-12-10T14:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=214608"},"modified":"2020-12-10T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:59:58","slug":"nd-lawmaker-others-test-covid-10-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=214608","title":{"rendered":"ND Lawmaker, others test COVID-10 positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-214609\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HolmbergRay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HolmbergRay.jpg 157w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HolmbergRay-125x175.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Senate\u2019s top budget writer is among several people who have tested positive for COVID-19 following the Legislature\u2019s three-day organizational session at the state Capitol last week. Grand Forks Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg confirmed his diagnosis to the Bismarck Tribune on Thursday. Three employees of the Legislature\u2019s 32-person nonpartisan research agency also have tested positive. North Dakota health officials on Thursday confirmed 575 new cases of the coronavirus and 23 additional deaths. Officials said 17 of the deaths occurred at least three days prior to the report Thursday, including 15 from November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Senate\u2019s top budget writer is among several people who have tested positive for COVID-19 following the Legislature\u2019s three-day organizational session at the state Capitol last week. Grand Forks Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg confirmed his diagnosis to the Bismarck Tribune on Thursday. Three employees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214608","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\/214608","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=214608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214610,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214608\/revisions\/214610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}