{"id":63453,"date":"2015-01-20T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63453"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:23:46","slug":"larimore-couple-heitkamp-guest-st-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63453","title":{"rendered":"Larimore couple Heitkamp guests St Union address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3039\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3039\" alt=\"Sen. Hedi Heitkamp (D) North Dakota\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11-300x201.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11-300x201.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11-260x175.png 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11.png 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Hedi Heitkamp (D) North Dakota<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A Larimore couple who helped care for injured students in the moments after a school bus collided with a freight train earlier this month are U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp&#8217;s guests for President Barack Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota Democrat invited Richard and Susan Lunski to Washington for the Tuesday night speech. Each senator gets one ticket for a guest, and Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson gave Heitkamp his ticket so she could invite both husband and wife.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They live near the scene of the Jan. 5 crash and helped care for students until emergency crews arrived.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The crash killed the 62-year-old bus driver, Max Danner, and 17-year-old student Cassidy Sandstrom. Twelve more students were injured. The cause is still being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A Larimore couple who helped care for injured students in the moments after a school bus collided with a freight train earlier this month are U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp&#8217;s guests for President Barack Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota Democrat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63453","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\/63453","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=63453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63455,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63453\/revisions\/63455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}