{"id":43228,"date":"2014-04-11T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43228"},"modified":"2014-04-13T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T16:29:33","slug":"hist-soc-to-get-update-welk-home-purchas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43228","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations Continue On Welk Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21956\" alt=\"welkhome2small\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The state Historical Society is still negotiating the purchase price of the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk.<\/p>\n<p>The group voted 6-5 in January to buy the Strasburg homestead from Welk&#8217;s nieces. But a final sale price was not negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase agreement also was contingent on negotiated repairs being made to the property, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature last year included $100,000 in the Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase but lawmakers stipulated that repairs must first be made.<\/p>\n<p>Historical Society Director Merl Paaverud (PAH&#8217;-vuhr-ood) says he expects details of the purchase to be worked out sometime this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Tours of the homestead led by volunteers are slated to begin on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The state Historical Society is still negotiating the purchase price of the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk. The group voted 6-5 in January to buy the Strasburg homestead from Welk&#8217;s nieces. But a final sale price was not negotiated. The purchase agreement also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228","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=43228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43253,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions\/43253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}