{"id":68133,"date":"2015-03-19T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68133"},"modified":"2015-03-19T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:00:20","slug":"early-booze-bill-fails-in-state-sen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68133","title":{"rendered":"Early booze bill fails in state sen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A measure that would allow North Dakotans to begin buying booze at restaurants on Sunday morning has failed by a single vote.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bipartisan measure would allow alcohol sales on Sundays to begin at 11 a.m. instead of noon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bill failed in the Senate Thursday by a 23-22 vote. Senate bills require 24 votes to pass.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two Senators were absent. The bill could be reconsidered Friday if they return.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bill passed the House last month by a 49-42 margin.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proponents say North Dakota&#8217;s restrictions put cities bordering other states at a disadvantage because those states allow for earlier booze sales on Sundays.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The legislation does not allow for off-sale liquor sales. It also does not require restaurants to serve booze at the earlier time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A measure that would allow North Dakotans to begin buying booze at restaurants on Sunday morning has failed by a single vote. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bipartisan measure would allow alcohol sales on Sundays to begin at 11 a.m. instead of noon. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bill failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68133","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=68133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68134,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68133\/revisions\/68134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}