{"id":80927,"date":"2015-09-02T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80927"},"modified":"2015-09-02T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:20:40","slug":"heitkamp-to-announce-political-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80927","title":{"rendered":"Heitkamp to announce political plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33868\" alt=\"heitkamp_Legacy\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she will announce plans for her political future in the next &#8220;five (to) seven&#8221; days.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rumors of a Heitkamp bid for governor were swirling months before North Dakota Gov. Jack Darlymple announced last week that he will not seek re-election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heitkamp says she is &#8220;working through&#8221; some details and understands that it&#8217;s important to reveal her plans as soon as possible. She adds that it&#8217;s unfair to North Dakota residents, the Democratic Party and her staff to &#8220;drag out&#8221; the issue.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Democrat from North Dakota made an unsuccessful bid for the governor&#8217;s mansion in 2000. She is a former state tax commissioner and attorney general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she will announce plans for her political future in the next &#8220;five (to) seven&#8221; days. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rumors of a Heitkamp bid for governor were swirling months before North Dakota Gov. Jack Darlymple announced last week that he will not seek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80927","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\/80927","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=80927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80929,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80927\/revisions\/80929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}