{"id":71190,"date":"2015-04-28T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71190"},"modified":"2015-04-30T07:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:21:51","slug":"legislature-okays-welk-home-maintenance-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71190","title":{"rendered":"Legislature okays Welk home maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<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>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Legislature has decided to pay for maintenance and other costs at the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature two years ago included $100,000 in the State Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase of the home in Strasburg.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senators had wanted an appropriation of $135,000 over the next two years for maintenance and to pay part-time staff. North Dakota&#8217;s House voted against the funding.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A House-Senate conference committee reached a compromise and recommended that $100,000 should be spent to pay staff and maintain the home.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Both chambers approved the funding Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The historical society hopes the Welk home also can be a tourist draw to tout in part the region&#8217;s German-Russian heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Legislature has decided to pay for maintenance and other costs at the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature two years ago included $100,000 in the State Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase of the home in Strasburg. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71190","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\/71190","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=71190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71196,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190\/revisions\/71196"}],"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=71190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}