{"id":57576,"date":"2014-10-27T14:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=57576"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:34:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:34:55","slug":"rev-bitz-honored-by-ndhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=57576","title":{"rendered":"Rev Bitz honored by NDHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A Bismarck priest has been honored by the North Dakota Highway Patrol for his service as a Highway Patrol chaplain for the past 11 years.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Rev. Al Bitz has received the agency&#8217;s Colonel&#8217;s Award for Excellence. Chaplains are available to assist officers in dealing with stressful situations such as vehicle crashes resulting in injuries or fatalities.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Patrol Sgt. Tom Herzig nominated Bitz. Herzig says Bitz &#8220;has been available on a moment&#8217;s notice to meet the needs and challenges of the agency and the citizens of North Dakota.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bitz retired in June from St. James Basilica in Jamestown.<\/strong> He is now part of the University of Mary&#8217;s Mission Advancement Department in Bismarck.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bitz is one of 15 Patrol chaplains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A Bismarck priest has been honored by the North Dakota Highway Patrol for his service as a Highway Patrol chaplain for the past 11 years. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Rev. Al Bitz has received the agency&#8217;s Colonel&#8217;s Award for Excellence. Chaplains are available to assist officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576","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=57576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57580,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576\/revisions\/57580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}