{"id":85348,"date":"2015-10-21T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=85348"},"modified":"2015-10-22T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:23:08","slug":"state-auditor-peterson-wont-seek-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=85348","title":{"rendered":"State Auditor Peterson won&#8217;t seek re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/PetersonRobert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85350\" alt=\"PetersonRobert\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/PetersonRobert.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State Auditor Robert Peterson says he won&#8217;t seek a sixth term.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he&#8217;s decided to retire next year.<\/p>\n<p>His departure will spell the end of a remarkable family dynasty in the office that monitors the finances and management of state departments. Peterson&#8217;s father, Robert W. Peterson, held the job for 24 years before his son was elected in 1996 as his successor.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more than four decades of a Peterson controlling the office.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old Peterson says he&#8217;s announcing his plans to give both parties time to recruit candidates. He says he&#8217;s looking forward to traveling and doing yard work at his home in Bismarck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State Auditor Robert Peterson says he won&#8217;t seek a sixth term. Peterson told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he&#8217;s decided to retire next year. His departure will spell the end of a remarkable family dynasty in the office that monitors the finances and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85348","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\/85348","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=85348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85443,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85348\/revisions\/85443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}