{"id":90496,"date":"2015-12-18T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90496"},"modified":"2015-12-18T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T22:34:29","slug":"sebastian-buckshot-hoffner-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90496","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian &#8220;Buckshot&#8221; Hoffner, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hoffnerfor-congress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90498\" alt=\"Hoffnerfor congress\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hoffnerfor-congress.jpg\" width=\"93\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Sebastian Fabian &#8220;Buckshot&#8221; Hoffner, a well-known North Dakota political figure who was a key figure in the 1950s merger of the North Dakota Democratic and Non-Partisan League parties, has died at the age of 91.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The death was confirmed by St. Vincent&#8217;s Continuing Care Center, where Hoffner died Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHoffner served 18 years in the Legislature, including stints in the House from 1962-66, 1968-1972 and 1983-84. He served in the Senate from 1972-1980.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party chairwoman Kylie Oversen says Hoffner&#8217;s enthusiasm and dedication for preserving and celebrating the past kept history alive in Bismarck and across the state.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oversen says Hoffner was an early advocate for open and transparent government, and his legacy will live on far beyond his days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Sebastian Fabian &#8220;Buckshot&#8221; Hoffner, a well-known North Dakota political figure who was a key figure in the 1950s merger of the North Dakota Democratic and Non-Partisan League parties, has died at the age of 91. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The death was confirmed by St. Vincent&#8217;s Continuing Care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90496","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\/90496","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=90496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90502,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90496\/revisions\/90502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}