{"id":245074,"date":"2022-03-08T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245074"},"modified":"2022-03-08T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:35:39","slug":"245074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245074","title":{"rendered":"Ray Holmberg Retire from ND Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 One of the longest serving state lawmakers in the country and a meticulous guardian of the the state\u2019s money is retiring from the North Dakota Legislature. Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg, of Grand Forks, was first elected in 1976. He is the most experienced legislator in the state and is tied as the longest-serving state senator in the U.S. with Democratic South Carolina Sen. Nikki Setzler, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The 79-year-old Holmberg said it was a difficult decision based on medical issues that \u201cdo not afford me the cognitive ability to accurately perform the work required and expected\u201d to represent his constituents. Holmberg chairs the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which writes state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 One of the longest serving state lawmakers in the country and a meticulous guardian of the the state\u2019s money is retiring from the North Dakota Legislature. Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg, of Grand Forks, was first elected in 1976. He is the most experienced legislator in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":245075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245074","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\/245074","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245078,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245074\/revisions\/245078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/245075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}