{"id":32991,"date":"2013-11-25T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32991"},"modified":"2013-11-26T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T14:01:52","slug":"ndfu-elects-jmst-man-pres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32991","title":{"rendered":"Watne New NDFU President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33006\" alt=\"Farmers Union\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MINOT, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Farmers Union members have elected a new president.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Watne,\u00a0of Jamestown, was elected during the group&#8217;s convention in Minot over the weekend. Watne is a longtime Farmers Union member who farms in the Velva area.<\/p>\n<p>Watne succeeds Elwood &#8220;Woody&#8221; Barth, who had been president since 2011. Bob Kuylen retains his position as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>The North Dakota Farmers Union has about 40,000 family members. About 700 people registered for the annual convention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINOT, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Farmers Union members have elected a new president. Mark Watne,\u00a0of Jamestown, was elected during the group&#8217;s convention in Minot over the weekend. Watne is a longtime Farmers Union member who farms in the Velva area. Watne succeeds Elwood &#8220;Woody&#8221; Barth, who had been president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32991","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=32991"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33116,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32991\/revisions\/33116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}